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From: Diamond <diamond@××××××.ru>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Review: desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:41:19
Message-Id: 20150119054110.3f9499ec@diamond.mlzone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Review: desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc by Gordon Pettey
1 On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:28:27 -0600
2 Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@×××××.com> wrote:
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6 > Because Intel and AMD support it via different cpuinfo feature names.
7 > It is popcnt on Intel, and abm on AMD. The description of the flag
8 > should also mention that it is included in feature "abm" on AMD CPUs
9 > (and Intel CPUs, but since they list popcnt separately, too, that
10 > might be confusing).
11
12 That's probably not quite correct. I have both of them in /proc/cpuinfo
13 on AMD Phenom II CPU.