On Thursday 03 May 2007 11:02:31 Avi Kivity wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thursday 03 May 2007 00:56:26 Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > > >> Andi Kleen wrote: > >> > >>> Nope. SSE3 != SSSE3. The additional S means Supplemential. > >>> > >>> It's probably because the few changes didn't justify a SSE4 > >>> > >> OK, the problem is that the actual sse3 bit is misnamed. According to > >> Intel's docs bit 0 of ECX is "sse", the kernel uses "pni". Too bad. > >> > > > > PNI (Prescott New Instructions) was the original engineering code name. > > Unfortunately > > it was added too early before the marketing name was known and then it > > couldn't be > > changed anymore. > > > > Perhaps sse3 could be added as an alias to pni.
That was considered at some point, but it would be a ugly special case and is probably not worth it. Usually these flags are Greek for most people anyways (and something else for the Greek speaking people @) -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
