On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:04:10PM -0700, Mark Miller wrote: > > As far as I can tell, SSE applies only to pentium III cpus and later; is > this correct? dmesg reports for me > > CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (399.10-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x665 Stepping = 5 > Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PA > T,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> > > Would enabling SSE in my kernel have any ill (positive) effects?
The Pentium II does not support SSE (as you can see from the above feature list). Kris
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