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From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 options.pc98 src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/i386 initcpu.c
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 03:32:13PM +0000, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, David Malone wrote:
> 
> > dwmalone    2002/02/12 13:13:02 PST
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/conf             options.i386 options.pc98
> >     sys/i386/conf        NOTES
> >     sys/i386/i386        initcpu.c
> >   Log:
> >   Add an option CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK which attempts to enable the SSE
> >   feature bit on newer Athlon CPUs if the BIOS has forgotten to enable
> >   it.
> 
> Could you make this a loader tunable?  Recompiling a kernel just for a few
> lines of code is a huge pain.
> 
Is there an easy to to tell if the BIOS has detected SSE on athlons?  

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David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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