Hi, On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:08:30PM +0200, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: > I can't tell you if this is normal, but sse3 isn't shown in my /proc/cpuinfo > either (neither is it in Gentoo nor was it in Debian before I switched to > Gentoo) (I have a Sempron 2800+). In some Benchmark program under W****** XP > (I don't remeber which one) it was stated that my Processor has SSE3, so I > guess it's a bug in the linux kernel.
They aren't named sse3 in /proc/cpuinfo, they are 'pni' [1]. I think they aren't named sse3 because they also include hyperthreading-specific instructions (not sure about this, I don't have Intel CPUs with sse3 to show evidences of this). Bye. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_New_Instructions PS: you know why Intel named its processor with the highest TDP ever, 'Prescott'? Just look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prescott_Joule ;-). -- * Pillon Matteo -- [email protected] mailing list
