RE: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: x86: Avoid using SSE/AVX instructions

David Laight
2024-09-23T11:17:37Z

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
> Sent: 20 September 2024 16:44
>
> Some distros switched gcc to '-march=x86-64-v3' by default and while it's
> hard to find a CPU which doesn't support it today,

I didn't think that any of the Atom based cpu supported AVX.
I'm pretty sure one we use that are still in production as
server motherboards don't support it.

Doesn't -v3 also require support for the VEX encoding.
Which removes a lot of perfectly reasonable cpu?

David

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