From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 5 14:13:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3792337B42A for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:13:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4118F56; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:13:11 -0500 (EST) Received: (from tls@localhost) by panix1.panix.com (8.11.3nb1/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id g15MDBa07361; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:13:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:13:11 -0500 From: Thor Lancelot Simon To: Wojciech Puchar , hackers@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Athlon XP SSE flag not set? (AMD's response) Message-ID: <20020205221311.GA6958@rek.tjls.com> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com References: <858788618A93D111B45900805F85267A047D6508@caexmta3.amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:38:28PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > - 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 If freestyle stupidity were an Olympic event, Wojtek, you'd be a four-time gold medal champion. What part of "" were you unable to read? -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message