[patches] Re: recognize x86 CPU variants and default SSE/MMX/3dNOW support

[Bo Thorsen]

On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:42, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> writes:
> > !       {"athlon4", PROCESSOR_ATHLON, PTA_MMX | PTA_SSEPREFETCH |
> > PTA_3DNOW ! 				    | PTA_3DNOW_A},
> > !       {"athlon-xp", PROCESSOR_ATHLON, PTA_MMX | PTA_SSEPREFETCH |
> > PTA_3DNOW ! 				      | PTA_3DNOW_A},
> > !       {"athlon-mobille", PROCESSOR_ATHLON, PTA_MMX | PTA_SSEPREFETCH
>
> mobile
>
> > ! 					   | PTA_3DNOW | PTA_3DNOW_A},
> > !       {"athlon-mp", PROCESSOR_ATHLON, PTA_MMX | PTA_SSEPREFETCH |
> > PTA_3DNOW ! 				      | PTA_3DNOW_A | PTA_SSE},
>
> The last three have the palamino kernel and have PTA_SSE.  I propose
> to merge them to Athlon-Palamino,

I think it's better to call them something that is not an internal code for 
the processor, so we would be better off with athlon4 or athlon-xp IMHO.

If not, then it's called Palomino.

Bo.

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