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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] march cflag for Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 SLA8Z Malay processor
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 04:36:50
Message-Id: CAJ0EP43kRgCYhaBHu77bb0R8rrGTHYf0ezNk9JywmgZwNAun8Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] march cflag for Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 SLA8Z Malay processor by Marc Joliet
1 On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 5:33 AM Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote:
2 >
3 > Am Freitag, 28. September 2018, 06:04:29 CEST schrieb Walter Dnes:
4 > > mmxext does not have its own flag in /proc/cpuinfo.
5 >
6 > ???
7 >
8 > % cat /proc/cpuinfo
9 > [...]
10 > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl cpuid extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch vmmcall
11 > ^^^ ^^^^^^
12 > (I hope the formatting doesn't get messed up, the point is that my /proc/cpuinfo *does* show mmxext.)
13
14 That cpuid flag only appears on AMD processors. It is never set for
15 Intel processors.
16
17 cpuid2cpuflags makes a special exception for this case.
18
19 https://github.com/mgorny/cpuid2cpuflags/blob/master/src/x86.c#L71