On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:43 PM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > But, looking at : /usr/portage/profiles/desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc > I surmise: > > CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 sse4 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 \ > mmx mmxext xop 3dnowprefetch 3dnow 3dnowext aes avx avx2 fma3 fma4 \ > padlock popcnt " >
Exactly how did you "surmise" your list? > What would be cool, is if the devs took the entire list of cpu flags > from proc/cpuinfo and piped it thru a simple validation script (equery > hasuse) to generate the maximum flags to set by default for a given cpu. That's exactly what cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86 does.
