Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:01:24 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mark Miller <joup@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU_ENABLE_SSE on a P2 Celeron? Message-ID: <20021016200124.GB13748@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20021015200131.O77260-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> References: <20021015200131.O77260-100000@soda.csua.berkeley.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:04:10PM -0700, Mark Miller wrote: > > As far as I can tell, SSE applies only to pentium III cpus and later; is > this correct? dmesg reports for me > > CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (399.10-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x665 Stepping = 5 > Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PA > T,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> > > Would enabling SSE in my kernel have any ill (positive) effects? The Pentium II does not support SSE (as you can see from the above feature list). Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9rcWUWry0BWjoQKURApGZAJ4k8vVw77UTuZaS1/Ll4JX1vE9InACeOoq0 5w11DL9IzwHfq0nbW+gwJcc= =T03f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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