On April 29, 2005 09:06 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:44:54 -0400 daniel
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | oh that's what it means! where'd you find that out? does this mean
> | that using an amd64 means i won't get support for any of those
> | things? is this likely to change?
>
> Well, sse, sse2, mmx, mmxext and 3dnow are x86 things, not amd64 things,
> so you don't get to play with them. altivec is ppc, so you can't play
> with that either. I'm guessing that the rest are masked due to
> non-working dependencies.
then why are 3dnow, mmx, sse and sse2 in the flags section of cpuinfo? or is
this in no way related to the use flags?
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 7
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 2211.337
cache size : 512 KB
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 pni syscall nx
mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 4374.52
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp
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