Re: [gentoo-user] How-to AMD Sempron 3300+

[Daniel Iliev]

Matteo Pillon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:08:30PM +0200, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote:
>
>> I can't tell you if this is normal, but sse3 isn't shown in my /proc/cpuinfo
>> either (neither is it in Gentoo nor was it in Debian before I switched to
>> Gentoo) (I have a Sempron 2800+). In some Benchmark program under W****** XP
>> (I don't remeber which one) it was stated that my Processor has SSE3, so I
>> guess it's a bug in the linux kernel.
>>
>
> They aren't named sse3 in /proc/cpuinfo, they are 'pni' [1].
> I think they aren't named sse3 because they also include
> hyperthreading-specific instructions (not sure about this, I don't
> have Intel CPUs with sse3 to show evidences of this).
>
> Bye.
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_New_Instructions
>
> PS: you know why Intel named its processor with the highest TDP ever,
> 'Prescott'? Just look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prescott_Joule ;-).
>
>
After some google digging I found "PNI = Prescott New Instructions = SSE3"
Sempron 3300+ has PNI

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Best regards,
Daniel


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