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From: Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:57:31
Message-Id: 1152308814l.9544l.0l@spike
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags by Chris Gianelloni
1 On 2006.07.07 14:27, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 02:31 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
3 > > The more I think about the issue and the more I like the complete
4 > > profiles for amd64 more than the other solutions.
5 >
6 > I don't even *want* to think of what this would be for x86.
7 >
8 > These are what I can think of, so far, with regards to different
9 > support
10 > on different chips.
11 >
12 > x86 (everything)
13 > i586 (everything i586-compatible)
14 > i586 + mmx (pentium-mmx)
15 > i686 (everything i686-compatible)
16 > i686 + mmx (pentium2+, athlon+)
17 > i686 + mmx + sse (pentium3+, athlon-xp+)
18 > i686 + mmx + sse + sse2 (pentium4+, athlon64+, opteron+)
19 > i686 + mmx + see + sse2 + sse3 (some pentium4, some athlon64, some
20 > opteron)
21 > i686 + mmx + 3dnow (athlon+)
22 > i686 + mmx + 3dnow + sse (athlon-xp+)
23 > i686 + mmx + 3dnow + sse + sse2 (athlon64+, opteron+)
24 > i686 + mmx + 3dnow + sse + sse2 + sse3 (some athlon64, some opteron)
25 >
26 [snip]
27 >
28 > --
29 > Chris Gianelloni
30 > Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
31 > x86 Architecture Team
32 > Games - Developer
33 > Gentoo Linux
34 >
35 Chris,
36
37 Its east to make worse too. There's mmxext and 3dnowext too.
38
39 Regards,
40
41 Roy Bamford
42
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