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On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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>> 3dnow - Use the 3DNow! instruction set |
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>> 3dnowext - Use the Enhanced 3DNow! instruction set |
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> Those are kinda mostly dead (no new CPUs have them anymore) |
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I'm sure there are still plenty of these out in the wild. I know I have one. |
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> So half of those are obsolete/dead, and the other half you need to do proper |
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> feature detection - why do we want that as useflags again? |
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The alternative would be to hard-disable them for the relevant |
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packages where runtime detection is not implemented (probably rare). |
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