On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:47:53PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > On Sunday 09 January 2005 5:53 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:40:42 +0100 Benjamin Schindler > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | > Do all amd64 boxes support sse? If they do, you can do: > > | > > | Yes, both sse and sse2 > > > > Right. Then you should not be offering USE flag settings for sse/sse2 on > > amd64. The only purpose of those flags is to allow us to build, say, > > i686 stages on a pentium4 without having to create a whole new arch to > > do so. > > Does the x86_64 architecture specifications require sse/sse2? Just because > sse-less x86_64 CPUs do not exist right now doesn't mean they won't in the > future, and then the same problem would come up again.
Somehow I can't entirely picture somebody deciding to take amd64 and rip out features as basic as sse. -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- [email protected] mailing list
