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From: Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:22:24
Message-Id: 200607070220.55202.kugelfang@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 Am Donnerstag, 6. Juli 2006 20:07 schrieb Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò:
2 >
3 > > rather than doing what the user says (aren't you always yelling at
4 > > upstreams for doing that?)
5 >
6 > The user asks for athlon64 support? They get athlon64 (mmx, 3dnow,
7 > 3dnowex, sse, sse2)
8 Ehm, no. Athlon64 can also optionally include: sse3 (for latest
9 steppings) and xchg16 (which is a bit older already)
10 > The user asks for G3 support? They get G3 (nothing)
11 > The user asks for Pentium4 support? They get what they want (mmx,
12 > sse, sse2, sse3 in case)
13 Afaik Pentium4 has support for xchg16 since the very beginning.
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15 Danny
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17 Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
18 Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>