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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