On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:52:40 +0100
Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Dnia 2015-01-19, o godz. 11:38:26
> Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> 
> > On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:44:05 +0100
> > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I would like to commit the following flags as cpu_flags_x86_desc.
> > > The list combines global USE flags with some local USE flags I've
> > > been able to find.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 3dnow - Use the 3DNow! instruction set
> > > 3dnowext - Use the Enhanced 3DNow! instruction set
> > > aes-ni - Enable support for Intel's AES instruction set (aes in
> > > cpuinfo) avx - Adds support for Advanced Vector Extensions
> > > instructions avx2 - Adds support for Advanced Vector Extensions 2
> > > instructions fma - Use the Fused Multiply Add instruction set
> > > mmx - Use the MMX instruction set
> > > mmxext - Use the Extended MMX instruction set (intersection of
> > > Enhanced 3DNow! and SSE instruction sets) (3dnowext or sse in
> > > cpuinfo) padlock - Use VIA padlock instructions popcnt - Enable
> > > popcnt instruction support sse - Use the SSE instruction set
> > > sse2 - Use the SSE2 instruction set
> > > sse3 - Use the SSE3 instruction set (pni in cpuinfo)
> > > sse4 - Enable SSE4 instruction support
> > > sse4_1 - Enable SSE4.1 instruction support
> > > sse4_2 - Enable SSE4.2 instruction support
> > > sse4a - Enable SSE4a instruction support
> > > ssse3 - Use the SSSE3 instruction set
> > > 
> > 
> > ewwww... are you aware that these descriptions are close to
> > useless ? 'foo - enable foo' -> thanks for the information I
> > couldn't have guessed...
> 
> It's not my fault we have to put some description there!

I know; I'm just ranting because you could grep use.local.desc to get
more informative ones for some of them; then we can start discussing on
how to improve the other ones :)

Alexis.

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