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From: Joe <bsdhelp@gmail.com>
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i'm currently attempting to emulate the appropriate cpu with qemu. i'll keep
yall posted.

On 11/15/06, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:00:13PM -0500, Joe wrote:
> >  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x642  Stepping = 2
> >
> Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
> >  AMD Features=0xc0440800<SYSCALL,<b18>,MMX+,3DNow+,3DNow>
>
> There is an option CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK which turns on SSE on Athlons
> which have SSE but where the BIOS has forgotten to turn it on.
> However, this Athlon looks too old - I think you need an Id of 0x660
> or higher for this to work.
>
>         David.
>



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Regards
Joe