On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:28:27 -0600
Gordon Pettey <petteyg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Because Intel and AMD support it via different cpuinfo feature names.
> It is popcnt on Intel, and abm on AMD. The description of the flag
> should also mention that it is included in feature "abm" on AMD CPUs
> (and Intel CPUs, but since they list popcnt separately, too, that
> might be confusing).

That's probably not quite correct. I have both of them in /proc/cpuinfo
on AMD Phenom II CPU.

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