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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:07:28 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options.i386 options.pc98 src/sys/i386/conf NOTES src/sys/i386/i386 initcpu.c 
Message-ID:   <200202122207.aa14319@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:36:07 CST." <20020212213607.GB7055@leviathan.inethouston.net> 

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> Is there an easy to to tell if the BIOS has detected SSE on athlons?  

Look at the Features line in /var/run/dmesg.boot and see if it
contains SSE:

Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT
,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>

If it doesn't then the BIOS may have forgotten. If you check the
"Id = " number on the previous line of dmesg.boot and the id looks
like "0x66y" or "0x67y" then this patch should help.

To actually use SSE within FreeBSD you'll need the CPU_ENABLE_SSE
option too.

	David.

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