On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 23:40 +1100, Crossfire wrote: > The 'correct' method to test for MMX (and later extensions) is to > check the output of the CPUID instruction. (Introduced in the late > 486 families - guaranteed to be available on all Pentium class or > newer systems however.) It is the CPUID instruction that the linux > kernel uses to generate most of the information in /proc/cpuinfo on > i386 systems.
cpuid is awesome! http://www.livejournal.com/users/kernelslacker/31732.html At least one of the comments is so totally worth reading that you should go ahead and funk on down there. /me waves at Ian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
