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Date:      Wed, 25 May 2005 07:19:02 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.4-RELEASE Athlon64 E3/E4 core support
Message-ID:  <20050525141902.GC35171@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <3545.172.16.0.199.1117028652.squirrel@172.16.0.1>
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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:44:12AM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 11:32 am, David O'Brien said:
> > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 02:02:36PM -0400, Ryan R. wrote:
> >
> >> So, I once again wipe the drive, but this time I install
> >> 5.4-RELEASE/i386.
> >> It installs fine, and boots fine.  One thing I notice during boot, is
> >> that SSE3 isn't detected by the kernel as a CPU feature anymore (amd64
> >> build did detect it).
> >
> > This has been corrected in 6-CURRENT.
> 
> A little off the topic, but what about new arch flags for make.conf? This
> CPU, as well as the new Venice core Athlons supports SSE3. I'm not even
> sure if this is useful or if our GCC supports it, just thought id mention
> it.

I'm most likely going to add an "opteron-e" CPUTYPE.  I've been pushing
for GCC to grow a "k8-e" support.  But no traction yet.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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