Fwd: SSE support in 6.1?
David Malone
dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Wed Nov 15 02:07:03 PST 2006
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:00:13PM -0500, Joe wrote:
> Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x642 Stepping = 2
> Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
> AMD Features=0xc0440800<SYSCALL,<b18>,MMX+,3DNow+,3DNow>
There is an option CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK which turns on SSE on Athlons
which have SSE but where the BIOS has forgotten to turn it on.
However, this Athlon looks too old - I think you need an Id of 0x660
or higher for this to work.
David.
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