Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

Pádraig Brady
2009-11-13T13:40:47Z

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Which would be mroe indication that the Geode LX may in fact be a K6
> based CPU design. The Geode NX is very clearly an Athlon (K7) and AMD
> has never even tried to hide that. They have never said what the LX is
> based on, other than it isn't based on the GX (fortunately, that thing
> was a buggy piece of crap).

When looking this up for http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/gcccpuopt
I determined that gcc --march=geode is for the LX which is
K6 + 3dnowext. Note gcc has no way currently of explicitly selecting 3dnowext.

cheers,
Pádraig.