On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Johan Pettersson wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:17:56 -0400 (EDT) > Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Ilker OZUPAK wrote: >> >>> is there any kernel options that is mandatory for the >>> "CPUTYPE=p4" case. anything to be addded to GENERIC >>> or to not to be removed. >> >> Your CPU qualifies for the I686_CPU cpu directive. You may consider >> commenting out I{4,5}86_CPU if you are not concerned with having the >> kernel boot on older machines. You may also want to add "options >> CPU_ENABLE_SSE". > > 'CPU_ENABLE_SSE' is automatically enabled when the kernel is compiled > with 'cpu I686_CPU'. Pentium Pros, IIs, Xeon IIs and early Celerons are 686s but they do not support SSE (SIMD was introduced with the PIII, IIRC). Are you positive that SSE floating-point calculations are enabled with I686_CPU? Here's what the cpu features bitfield expands to on an older 686: Features=0x183fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> Compare this to the following, which was taken from a newer 686: Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> Regards, > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >Received on Tue Jul 13 2004 - 12:59:21 UTC
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