From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 16 16: 0:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ghostwheel.tribble.net (ghostwheel.tribble.net [206.124.26.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF5937B408 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tribble@tribble.net) Received: (from tribble@localhost) by ghostwheel.tribble.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f7GN0Zg45343; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:00:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from tribble@tribble.net) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:00:35 -0600 From: Paul To: Kris Kennaway Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New kernel option CPU_ENABLE_SSE Message-ID: <20010816170035.A45250@tribble.net> References: <200108162020.QAA14274@world.std.com> <200108162200.SAA21031@world.std.com> <20010816150345.A79841@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010816150345.A79841@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:03:45PM -0700 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 Once upon a time, Kris Kennaway scribed: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:00:40PM -0400, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: > > Am I correct in assuming that "older generation" 686 CPUs > > (i.e. pre-Pentium-III) don't support SSE & that SSE is a > > function/enhancement of "newer generation" CPUs? > > Yes. I think it came in with the Pentium III. Correct. Pentium III supports SSE, as well do the newer Celeron chips which are essentially PIIIs with less L2 cache. That's my understanding, anyhow. Don't know anything about SSE2. Considering how worthless PIVs are, really, does it matter? :P > Kris Regards, Paul http://www.tribble.net/ Bush - not popularly elected, making unpopular decisions against the will of the people. If you're not outraged, I guess you aren't paying attention. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message