Re: CPUTYPE=p4 & kernel config

From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock_at_gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:54:51 +0200
On Tuesday 13 July 2004 16:59, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:

> 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?

CPU_ENABLE_SSE (explicit or implicit with I686_CPU) enables the _check_ for 
SSE (and if they are available, they're enabled).

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