[haiku-development] Re: how to get CPU features like SSE, etc
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:18:54 +0100
Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there some well-defined API that reports the hardware
> characteristics of the CPU on Haiku?
> In particular I want to find out what SIMD extensions it supports
> etc.
> On Linux I can use HW_CAP from glibc -which is not really an elegant
> solution, but it works.
Currently, the only solution is to use the get_cpuid() function from
userland.
You can have a look at src/bin/sysinfo.c on how to retrieve the info
you are interested in.
Bye,
Axel.
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