Difference between revisions of "CPU FLAGS"

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This page lists processor instruction sets that can be enabled on Funtoo Linux systems using the CPU_FLAGS_* variables.

CPU_FLAGS_X86

Flag	Introduced	By	Part of	Adopted in	Name	Links
`mmx`	1997 (Pentium MMX)	Intel			MMX	See Wikipedia:MMX (instruction set)
`mmxext`	1999	AMD	`sse`	Intel Pentium III (as part of SSE)	AMD MMX Extensions	See Wikipedia:Extended MMX
`sse`	1999 (Pentium III)	AMD		Athlon XP	Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE)	See Wikipedia:Streaming SIMD Extensions
`sse2`	2001 (Pentium 4)	Intel		AMD Athlon 64/Opteron	Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2)	See Wikipedia:SSE2
`sse3`	2004 (Pentium 4 Prescott)	Intel		AMD Athlon 64 (some steppings)	Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSE3/PNI)	See Wikipedia:SSE3
`ssse3`	2006 (Core 2 Woodcrest)	Intel		AMD Bobcat/Bulldozer	Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE3)	See Wikipedia:SSSE3
`sse4_1`	2007 (Core Penryn)	Intel		AMD Bulldozer	Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1	See Wikipedia:SSSE4#SSE4.1
`sse4a`	late 2007 (Barcelona/Phenom)	AMD		N/A	Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 4a	See Wikipedia:SSSE4#SSE4a
`sse4_2`	late 2008 (Nehalem/Core i7)	Intel		AMD Bulldozer	Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2	See Wikipedia:SSSE4#SSE4.2
`popcnt`	2007	AMD		Intel Nehalem	POPCNT	See Wikipedia:SSE4#POPCNT_and_LZCNT
`lzcnt`	2007	AMD		Intel Haswell	LZCNT	See Wikipedia:SSE4#POPCNT_and_LZCNT
`xop`	2011 (Bulldozer)	AMD			XOP Instruction set	See Wikipedia:XOP instruction set
`avx`	2011 (Sandy Bridge)	Intel		AMD Bulldozer	Advanced Vector Extensions	See Wikipedia:Advanced Vector Extensions
`fma4`	2011 (Bulldozer)	AMD		N/A	FMA3	See Wikipedia:FMA instruction set
`fma3`	2012 (Piledriver)	AMD		Intel Haswell	FMA3	See Wikipedia:FMA instruction set

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 <tr><td>{{c|xop}}</td><td>2011 (Bulldozer)</td><td>AMD</td><td></td><td></td><td>XOP Instruction set</td><td>See [[Wikipedia:XOP instruction set]]</td></tr>
 <tr><td>{{c|avx}}</td><td>2011 (Sandy Bridge)</td><td>Intel</td><td></td><td>AMD Bulldozer</td><td>Advanced Vector Extensions</td><td>See [[Wikipedia:Advanced Vector Extensions]]</td></tr>
+<tr><td>{{c|fma4}}</td><td>2011 (Bulldozer)</td><td>AMD</td><td></td><td>N/A</td><td>FMA3</td><td>See [[Wikipedia:FMA instruction set]]</td></tr>
+<tr><td>{{c|fma3}}</td><td>2012 (Piledriver)</td><td>AMD</td><td></td><td>Intel Haswell</td><td>FMA3</td><td>See [[Wikipedia:FMA instruction set]]</td></tr>
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