Bug#674760: CPU-specific optimizations are only enabled on Linux

Robert Millan rmh at debian.org
Sun May 27 14:43:25 UTC 2012


2012/5/27 Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com>:
> does kfreebsd support avx instructions?

The version in Debian doesn't.  Currently it's only supported on
10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE
(http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=231979).

> if not will the cpuid instruction report is as missing even if the cpu
> has the feature?

I don't think so.

It's probably better to wait...

-- 
Robert Millan





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