From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FyyKJ-0002rq-Bk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:57:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k67LsADe024553; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 21:54:10 GMT Received: from crossford.net (dsl-62-3-120-141.zen.co.uk [62.3.120.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k67LkrC4019281 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 21:46:53 GMT Received: (qmail 22971 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2006 22:46:52 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO spike) (192.168.100.18) by 192.168.10.10 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2006 22:46:52 +0100 Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:46:54 +0100 From: Roy Bamford Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200607061252.33028@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200607070139.10355@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <44ADA441.9050309@gentoo.org> <200607070211.54587@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <44ADAB5D.1060207@gentoo.org> <1152278855.31480.34.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1152278855.31480.34.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> (from wolf31o2@gentoo.org on Fri Jul 7 14:27:35 2006) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.3.12 Message-Id: <1152308814l.9544l.0l@spike> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k67LkrC4019281 X-Archives-Salt: 6e0e6fda-95a8-4950-a54d-624edd1dfebb X-Archives-Hash: a77bd29a520161bf0b15a787f43e79da On 2006.07.07 14:27, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 02:31 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > > The more I think about the issue and the more I like the complete > > profiles for amd64 more than the other solutions. > > I don't even *want* to think of what this would be for x86. > > These are what I can think of, so far, with regards to different > support > on different chips. > > x86 (everything) > i586 (everything i586-compatible) > i586 + mmx (pentium-mmx) > i686 (everything i686-compatible) > i686 + mmx (pentium2+, athlon+) > i686 + mmx + sse (pentium3+, athlon-xp+) > i686 + mmx + sse + sse2 (pentium4+, athlon64+, opteron+) > i686 + mmx + see + sse2 + sse3 (some pentium4, some athlon64, some > opteron) > i686 + mmx + 3dnow (athlon+) > i686 + mmx + 3dnow + sse (athlon-xp+) > i686 + mmx + 3dnow + sse + sse2 (athlon64+, opteron+) > i686 + mmx + 3dnow + sse + sse2 + sse3 (some athlon64, some opteron) > [snip] > > -- > Chris Gianelloni > Release Engineering - Strategic Lead > x86 Architecture Team > Games - Developer > Gentoo Linux > Chris, Its east to make worse too. There's mmxext and 3dnowext too. Regards, Roy Bamford -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list