At the time the code was written (fall 1999?) the only way Gareth found that he could reliably determine that SSE was fully supported (by CPU and kernel) was to try executing an SSE instruction and catching the exception if it failed.
If there's a better way of doing that nowadays, we could update Mesa.
A work-around might be for Phillip to set the MESA_NO_SSE env var.
Does that mean that software Mesa doesn't use SSE? The problem occurs only with the r200 driver, not with software rendering.
Philipp
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