[PATCH] fixing SSE detection in solid

[Tobias Koenig]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:37:21PM -0500, Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Tobias Koenig wrote:
Hej,

> > According to the specs, MMX is at bit 23, SSE at bit 25 and SSE2 at bit 26
> >
> > 0000 0110 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 <- msb
> >
> > So the bitmask 0x06800000 should cover the SSE/2 and MMX bit and
> > 0x02000000 checks for SSE and 0x04000000 for SSE2.
> 
> I agree with the bitmasks (I assume you mean msb is the one at the far left. 
> ;)
Hmm isn't msb the bit that represents 2^0? You see I'm not good at binary level ;)

> I've tried running solidshell again after applying the patch but it doesn't 
> seem to change the output at all.  Is there a better testcase to use?
I used the tutorial3 from the techbase examples about solid.

  http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs-apidocs/solid/html/tutorial3.html

Ciao,
Tobias
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