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[Corey Hickey]

Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
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>>I recently bought a ATHLON XP 1700+ THOROUGHBRED (0.13 micron) and when 
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>>Does this processor really not support SSE ???? While others Athlons XP 
>>support it ?
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> it seems
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>>flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
>>mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
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> sse/xmm is missing here.
> either it has no sse or you need kernel upgrade(?) (or option?) to enable it
> afaik athlons have sse disabled by default, it can be enabled by OS (or bios?)
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> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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For what it's worth, I have a family 6, model 8, stepping 0 AthlonXP
2200+, and SSE works just fine. I'm running a custom-compiled
2.4.20-pre10-ac1 kernel.

Is /proc/cpuinfo read directly from the CPU, or does it show what the
kernel understands the CPU to be capable of?

-Corey