From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 16 14:58:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from clyde.goodleaf.net (piscator.seanet.com [199.181.165.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B4C37B409 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:58:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goodleaf@goodleaf.net) Received: by clyde.goodleaf.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3C5195C7F; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:11:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:11:34 -0700 From: "J. Goodleaf" To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New kernel option CPU_ENABLE_SSE Message-ID: <20010816151134.A75305@clyde.goodleaf.net> References: <20010816142844.C79242@xor.obsecurity.org> <01e301c1269a$c14ea3a0$0a01a8c0@den2> <20010816235022.A13222@student.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010816235022.A13222@student.uu.se>; from ertr1013@student.uu.se on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:50:24PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I thought MMX was a SSE instruction set. Is this snazzy new option useless on my dual PIIs? -J On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:50:24PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:31:05AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: > > :: Because not all i686'es support SSE. > > > > Which version of SSE is this? > > All versions of SSE presumably. > The Pentium Pro (which is the original i686) did not even support MMX, > much less SSE. > I believe SSE was first introduced with the Pentium III, meaning the P2 > did not have it either. > > > -- > > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- =============================== John Goodleaf goodleaf@goodleaf.net PGP key: finger John@clyde.goodleaf.net =============================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message