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Linus, Alan..

Please consider applying the attached patch to the mainstream kernel(s).
It enables SSE support on Athlon4/MP/XP (later model) Athlon's if the BIOS
does not. This is done by zero-ing bit 15 of the Athlon's HWCR. The
patch has been tested for a few days by me and a few other people with
AthlonMP's and Athlon4's, with no negative reports.

It's a very simple patch, please consider applying.

john.c

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diff -u --recursive linux-orig/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
--- linux-orig/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Wed Sep 19 22:49:11 2001
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Fri Sep 21 01:23:22 2001
@@ -1272,6 +1272,21 @@

case 6: /* An Athlon/Duron. We can trust the BIOS probably */
mcheck_init(c);
+
+ /* Bit 15 of Athlon specific MSR 15, needs to be 0
+ * to enable SSE on Palomino/Morgan CPU's.
+ * If the BIOS didn't enable it already, enable it
+ * here.
+ */
+ if (c->x86_model == 6 || c->x86_model == 7) {
+ if (!test_bit(X86_FEATURE_XMM, &c->x86_capability)) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Enabling K7/SSE support, since BIOS did not\n");
+ rdmsr(MSR_K7_HWCR, l, h);
+ l &= ~0x00008000;
+ wrmsr(MSR_K7_HWCR, l, h);
+ set_bit(X86_FEATURE_XMM, &c->x86_capability);
+ }
+ }
break;
}

diff -u --recursive linux-orig/include/asm-i386/msr.h linux/include/asm-i386/msr.h
--- linux-orig/include/asm-i386/msr.h Wed Sep 19 22:49:27 2001
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/msr.h Wed Sep 19 22:57:32 2001
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@

#define MSR_K7_EVNTSEL0 0xC0010000
#define MSR_K7_PERFCTR0 0xC0010004
+#define MSR_K7_HWCR 0xC0010015

/* Centaur-Hauls/IDT defined MSRs. */
#define MSR_IDT_FCR1 0x107
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