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On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:44:05 +0100 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I would like to commit the following flags as cpu_flags_x86_desc. |
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> The list combines global USE flags with some local USE flags I've been |
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> able to find. |
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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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> aes-ni - Enable support for Intel's AES instruction set (aes in |
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> cpuinfo) avx - Adds support for Advanced Vector Extensions |
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> instructions avx2 - Adds support for Advanced Vector Extensions 2 |
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> instructions fma - Use the Fused Multiply Add instruction set |
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> mmx - Use the MMX instruction set |
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> mmxext - Use the Extended MMX instruction set (intersection of |
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> Enhanced 3DNow! and SSE instruction sets) (3dnowext or sse in |
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> cpuinfo) padlock - Use VIA padlock instructions popcnt - Enable |
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> popcnt instruction support sse - Use the SSE instruction set |
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> sse2 - Use the SSE2 instruction set |
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> sse3 - Use the SSE3 instruction set (pni in cpuinfo) |
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> sse4 - Enable SSE4 instruction support |
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> sse4_1 - Enable SSE4.1 instruction support |
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> sse4_2 - Enable SSE4.2 instruction support |
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> sse4a - Enable SSE4a instruction support |
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> ssse3 - Use the SSSE3 instruction set |
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There are other cool instructions on modern CPUs too. For example, |
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iommu. There are versions of them in kernel config options. Maybe |
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genkernel should depend on them? IDK, because I configure kernel config |
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by hand. |