From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 5 13:28:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from amdext.amd.com (amdext.amd.com [139.95.251.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED72137B419; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:28:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ssvlgs01.amd.com (ssvlgs01.amd.com [139.95.250.16]) by amdext.amd.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/AMD) with SMTP id NAA21692; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:28:35 -0800 (PST) From: marc.miller@amd.com Received: from 139.95.250.1 by ssvlgs01.amd.com with ESMTP (Tumbleweed MMS SMTP Relay (MMS v4.7)); Tue, 05 Feb 2002 13:28:33 -0800 X-Server-Uuid: 02753650-11b0-11d5-bbc5-00508bf987eb Received: from caexmta3.amd.com (caexmta3.amd.com [139.95.53.7]) by amdint.amd.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/AMD) with ESMTP id NAA01973; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:28:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by caexmta3.amd.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:28:32 -0800 Message-ID: <858788618A93D111B45900805F85267A047D6519@caexmta3.amd.com> To: wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-audit@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: RE: Athlon XP SSE flag not set? (AMD's response) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:28:31 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-WSS-ID: 107E910B2570715-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Public document 20734 (http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/20734.pdf) should help with that. Marc J. Miller Open Source Relations Engineer marc.miller@amd.com 1-800-538-8450 x43325 -----Original Message----- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 12:38 PM To: Miller, Marc Cc: hackers@freebsd.org; freebsd-audit@freebsd.org; netbsd-users@netbsd.org; port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Athlon XP SSE flag not set? (AMD's response) > > - 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message