On 4/29/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:54:57 +0000 Calvin Spealman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | i dont understand whats going on here. I thought those flags enabled > | the use of extended sets of the x86 instruction set, and amd64 chips > | are in the x86 family, aren't they? and they support those > | extensions, I'm sure, so what then do those flags do that the amd64 > | can't make use of the flags? >
I thought that if you 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' it'll show you the flags that are compatible with your cpu. Is that not accurate for the amd64 chip? -Hani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
