From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759587AbZEKVRO (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 17:17:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757986AbZEKVQ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 17:16:56 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:40474 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755786AbZEKVQz (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 17:16:55 -0400 To: lkml@MoreThan.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disable generation of sse3 instructions in kernel build. From: Andi Kleen References: <200905091903.25745.lkml@morethan.org> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 23:16:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200905091903.25745.lkml@morethan.org> (Michael S. Zick's message of "Sat, 9 May 2009 19:03:22 -0500") Message-ID: <87skjbmjb2.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Michael S. Zick" writes: > Ref: 2.6.30-rcX > The option to disable sse3 instructions needs to be added to build system for x86. > Otherwise strange and mysterious things happen (tm). Can you please expand a little bit? With what compiler version did you see problems? And in what area did they happen? -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.