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 1GQZT4-0002UI-Aj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:04:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8M13SEK032058; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:03:28 GMT Received: from ilievnet.com ([84.21.204.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8M0x2l1004629 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:59:02 GMT Received: (qmail 9421 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2006 03:59:02 +0300 Received: from mail.ilievnet.com (HELO ?10.0.1.1?) (10.0.1.1) by mail.ilievnet.com with SMTP; 22 Sep 2006 03:59:02 +0300 Message-ID: <45133555.8090007@ilievnet.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:59:01 +0300 From: Daniel Iliev User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060915) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How-to AMD Sempron 3300+ References: <45121E46.5000001@ilievnet.com> <200609211308.30613.gidoca@gmx.ch> <20060921124130.GA23317@neptune.octopus> In-Reply-To: <20060921124130.GA23317@neptune.octopus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2683b7ea-3c80-44f2-bad4-dc915862c86d X-Archives-Hash: 4e2f824b9294f3a7d9e96103eb24a8aa Matteo Pillon wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:08:30PM +0200, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: > >> I can't tell you if this is normal, but sse3 isn't shown in my /proc/cpuinfo >> either (neither is it in Gentoo nor was it in Debian before I switched to >> Gentoo) (I have a Sempron 2800+). In some Benchmark program under W****** XP >> (I don't remeber which one) it was stated that my Processor has SSE3, so I >> guess it's a bug in the linux kernel. >> > > They aren't named sse3 in /proc/cpuinfo, they are 'pni' [1]. > I think they aren't named sse3 because they also include > hyperthreading-specific instructions (not sure about this, I don't > have Intel CPUs with sse3 to show evidences of this). > > Bye. > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_New_Instructions > > PS: you know why Intel named its processor with the highest TDP ever, > 'Prescott'? Just look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prescott_Joule ;-). > > After some google digging I found "PNI = Prescott New Instructions = SSE3" Sempron 3300+ has PNI -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list