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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
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Subject: Re: Athlon XP SSE flag not set?  (AMD's response)
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>
> - Our website has supported motherboards.
>
> - These motherboards have BIOSes that enable SSE on AthlonXP.
it's strange that BIOS have to do it.
> - The end user should upgrade their BIOS if they have these motherboards.

ask AMD how to enable it - it's probably few lines of assembly that could
be added to NetBSD initialization code


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