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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:12:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, kaz@kobe1995.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: support Pentium3 SSE 
Message-ID:  <15155.17478.30570.310745@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010621214351.9B56D3808@overcee.netplex.com.au>
References:  <20010621102130.C63569@peorth.iteration.net> <20010621214351.9B56D3808@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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Peter Wemm writes:
 > "Michael C . Wu" wrote:
 > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:07:25PM +0100, David Malone scribbled:
 > > | On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:39:55PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > | > While we're at it, I know that the AMD AthlonMP supports SSE, but I
 > > 
 > > I think we already detect AthlonMP's SSE automatically.
 > > I recall reading Peter's dmesg of his Tyan board and seeing
 > > SSE in the config.
 > 
 > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1194.43-MHz 686-class CPU)
 >  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x661  Stepping = 1
 >  Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,\
 >                     MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
 >  AMD Features=0xc0440000<<b18>,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
 > 
 > Note the FXSR (fast context save and restore) and the SSE flag are there.

Ah, Excellent!  I was confused because the dmesg from the Athlon MP
board that John Baldwin posted about had the only the FXSR flag but
not the SSE flag set.  Interestingly, its the same Id and stepping:

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1194.68-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x661  Stepping = 1 
Features=0x183fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
  AMD Features=0xc0440000<<b18>,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>


I guess it must have been an early rev or something.  

Cheers,

Drew

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