ron minnich wrote: > BTW, what are the rules for MMX/SSE? IIRC MMX was in Ppro.
MMX was introduced on the Pentium. There was Pentium, then came Pentium-MMX. It took a while, so Pentium Pro might have been there before Pentium-MMX. My guess is that Pentium Pro did not have MMX. SSE came in Pentium III. > What supported CPUs can we assume support MMX and SSE? Can we go by > socket type (likely on newer parts) or do we have to go by > model/family? The Pentiums are tricky with MMX, because the same board will run just fine with Pentium and Pentium-MMX alike. So for Pentium boards it's not really safe to assume there will ever be MMX. The later models were slot 1 or socket 370. Could you put a standard Pentium in a socket 370? I doubt it. Then it's safe to set MMX based on socket. What about Pentium III? IIRC you could put an FCPGA Pentium III in an adapter that made it into a slot 1, and could run instead of a Pentium II.. Can't rely on the socket there. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
