Re: tlug: Sony vaio 505

[Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>]

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> Well, it *knows* about them, but I'm not sure what it does with them...
> ie, if you have an MMX CPU and you look at /proc/cpuinfo, it has 'mmx'
> listed in the flags line.

It does absolutely nothing with them.  The flags in /proc/cpuinfo are set
from a CPUID register ... only recognized for informational purposes, not
acted upon.

--	Chris (wileyc@example.com)

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