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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Review: desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:41:22
Message-Id: 20150119114109.6c906c45@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Review: desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc by Matt Turner
1 On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:15:22 -0800
2 Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
3 > > mmx - Use the MMX instruction set
4 > > mmxext - Use the Extended MMX instruction set (intersection of
5 > > Enhanced 3DNow! and SSE instruction sets) (3dnowext or sse in
6 > > cpuinfo) padlock - Use VIA padlock instructions popcnt - Enable
7 > > popcnt instruction support sse - Use the SSE instruction set
8 > > sse2 - Use the SSE2 instruction set
9 > > sse3 - Use the SSE3 instruction set (pni in cpuinfo)
10 > > sse4 - Enable SSE4 instruction support
11 >
12 > We shouldn't have an sse4 USE flag. It's either one of the three
13 > below, but SSE4 by itself isn't a thing.
14
15 wikipedia says it is sse4.1 + sse4.2
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18 Alexis.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Review: desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@×××××.com>