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--[[User:Dmalcolm|Dmalcolm]] 18:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC) If a Fedora user wants to verify that a CPU will work with F12, how should he/she query /proc/cpuinfo ?  (and does smolt have any of this data?)  Thanks
* [[User:Dmalcolm|Dmalcolm]] 18:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC) If a Fedora user wants to verify that a CPU will work with F12, how should he/she query /proc/cpuinfo ?  (and does smolt have any of this data?)  Thanks
---[[User:notting|Bill Nottingham]] Once a set has been decided on, this should be pretty trivial. With respect to the proposal, 'grep sse2 /proc/cpuinfo' should work.
** [[User:notting|Bill Nottingham]] Once a set has been decided on, this should be pretty trivial. With respect to the proposal, 'grep sse2 /proc/cpuinfo' should work.
-- [[User:Bruno|Bruno]]: Is there a way to tell which binaries actually use SSE2 instructions so that a secondary arch targeting athlons would be able to inherit safe binaries from the i686+ arch?
* [[User:Bruno|Bruno]]: Is there a way to tell which binaries actually use SSE2 instructions so that a secondary arch targeting athlons would be able to inherit safe binaries from the i686+ arch?

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  • Dmalcolm 18:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC) If a Fedora user wants to verify that a CPU will work with F12, how should he/she query /proc/cpuinfo ? (and does smolt have any of this data?) Thanks
    • Bill Nottingham Once a set has been decided on, this should be pretty trivial. With respect to the proposal, 'grep sse2 /proc/cpuinfo' should work.
  • Bruno: Is there a way to tell which binaries actually use SSE2 instructions so that a secondary arch targeting athlons would be able to inherit safe binaries from the i686+ arch?