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Cc: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Adding k9 and k10 to bsd.cpu.mk
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Björn König wrote:
> Roman Divacky wrote:
>
>   
>> I dont think the name matters THAT MUCH, the important thing is
>> to support the newer CPUs with FreeBSD infrastructure... name
>> it "blahblah" if you wish
>>     
>
> I agree.
>
> Intel's first Pentium 4 with SSE3 is called "prescott". We could use
> "venice" analogously to represent SSE3-capable Athlon64 CPUs.
>   

Would it be possible to indicate whether SSE3 is supported during 
boot?    I have a Turion 64 X2 which from what I've read supports SSE3 
but while SSE and SSE2 are listed as CPU features during boot, there's 
no mention of SSE3.

--
Bruce Cran