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Hi, |
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:08:30PM +0200, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: |
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> I can't tell you if this is normal, but sse3 isn't shown in my /proc/cpuinfo |
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> either (neither is it in Gentoo nor was it in Debian before I switched to |
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> Gentoo) (I have a Sempron 2800+). In some Benchmark program under W****** XP |
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> (I don't remeber which one) it was stated that my Processor has SSE3, so I |
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> guess it's a bug in the linux kernel. |
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They aren't named sse3 in /proc/cpuinfo, they are 'pni' [1]. |
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I think they aren't named sse3 because they also include |
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hyperthreading-specific instructions (not sure about this, I don't |
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have Intel CPUs with sse3 to show evidences of this). |
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Bye. |
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_New_Instructions |
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PS: you know why Intel named its processor with the highest TDP ever, |
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'Prescott'? Just look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prescott_Joule ;-). |
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* Pillon Matteo |
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