Peter Wemm wrote:
> Jerry A! wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 10:00:44PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > : Hi,
> > :
> > : how about the following patch (untested) regarding the newer athlon xp
> > : processor type ? if needed, I could submit a PR.
> > 
> > Shouldn't Athlons and AthlonXPs be able to use i686 (pentiumpro)
> > instruction set optimizations?
> 
> No.  They are different cpu cores that have different optimization
> strategies.
> 
> The patch doesn't include the AthlonMP which has the same core with
> both SSE and MMX.

Athlon XP (commercial name) == Athlon MP (core name)

Athlon (alias k7) already has MMX. the objective of this patch
was to add SSE to the set of XP (alias MP) processors.

Cyrille.
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