[lug] request for data: cpuinfo on non-x86 cpus

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Wed Jul 23 20:24:53 MDT 2008


Zan Lynx wrote:
> Graphics and crypto libraries often use CPUID and its equivalents (every
> CPU I am aware of has instructions to identify its type and abilities)
> in order to determine if it should use MMX/3dnow/SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSE4,
> cmpxchng, prefetch and other cache control, profile registers, etc.

Wikipedia has 2 links to linux programs for dumping CPUID info at the 
end of their article on CPUID.

Dave



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