My recent debian *stable* just upgraded chromium to a version that requires sse3
I have a 2009 AMD Phenom X4 which DOES support sse3 according to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Phenom_processors
My /proc/cpuinfo gives:
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp
lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid
***pni*** monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt hw_pstate vmmcall npt lbrv
svm_lock nrip_save
Which clearly does not contain sse3. However the linux kernel uses pni:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/3/86
and that is present.
So the /usr/bin/chromium script that searches for sse3 and blocks chromium from
working is broken :(
It should use grep -q -e sse3 -e pni /proc/cpuinfo
I tried to raise a PR on salsa.debian.org but I'm waiting for account approval
:)
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