[PATCH] Remove ENABLE_SSE option from i386 and pc98
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 1 13:24:48 GMT 2005
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On Friday 01 July 2005 07:11 am, Xin LI wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is a patch for review, which removes ENABLE_SSE from i386 and
> pc98 platforms. I think we should have it before we branch RELENG_6.
>
> The reason why the option should be removed:
>
> - ENABLE_SSE was turned on by default 2 years and 9 months
> ago, for I686_CPU. It makes few sense to "enable" something
> that is already enabled (No I586_CPUs supports SSE so far
> as I am aware)
> - We have DISABLE_SSE to disable SSE, having both ENABLE_SSE
> and DISABLE_SSE is quite confusing, since DISABLE_SSE
> always overrides ENABLE_SSE.
>
> Cheers,
Kill it dead.
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