Re: [prelim-PATCH] Enable SSE on K7 without BIOS support.

[Kurt Garloff]

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:30:41PM -0400, John Clemens wrote:
> diff -u --recursive linux-orig/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c linux/arch/i386/k=
ernel/setup.c
> --- linux-orig/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	Wed Sep 19 22:49:11 2001
> +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	Wed Sep 19 22:51:34 2001
> @@ -1272,6 +1272,14 @@
>=20
>  		case 6:	/* An Athlon/Duron. We can trust the BIOS probably */
>  			mcheck_init(c);
> +			if (c->x86_model =3D=3D 6 || c->x86_model =3D=3D 7) {
> +			        rdmsr(MSR_K7_HWCR, l, h);
> +				if ( (h|l) !=3D 0 ) {
> +					printk(KERN_INFO "Palomino/Morgan: Enabling K7/SSE support (your BI=
OS didn't..)\n");
> +					wrmsr(MSR_K7_HWCR, 0, 0);
> +					set_bit(X86_FEATURE_XMM, &c->x86_capability);

After you enabled it via HWCR, cpuid should report the SSE capability, no?
You should check it and not unconditionally enable XMM/SSE support flag,
otherwise it may break on some CPU models.

Regards,
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Kurt Garloff  <[e-mail]>                          Eindhoven, NL
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