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Re: amd64 and dpkg and so



Whoops of course you're right... my bad. It supports standard SSE and
SSE2 in Legacy and Compatibility Mode and enhanced SSE2 in Long Mode

Martin


On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 21:58, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Jungowski <jungowsk@in.tum.de> writes:
> 
> Martin> These registers are also known as
> Martin> additional SSE-Registers, hence the CPU does not support SSE2
> Martin> in 32-bit mode but in 64-bit only.
> 
> No, it does support sse2 in (both) 32bit mode(s).  It just can use
> twice as many xmm registers in long mode (64bit mode), just like it
> can use twice as many general purpose registers.
> 
> -JimC
> 



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