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November 21st, 2008

 

Table 15-6: CPUID Standard Feature implementation

A.4.2 CPUID AMD Feature Support (Extended Function 0x80000001)

Table 15-7shows the extended feature bits returned by the AweSim CPU processor model and which features are fully () or only partially () implemented and

supported. A indicates that the returned feature bit is zero and this feature is not implemented and not supported.

 

 

 

 

7th

 

 

8th

 

 

8th

 

 

8th

 

 

Feature

 

 

Generation

 

 

Generation

 

 

Generation

 

 

 

 

Generation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Base)

 

 

Pre.-Rev. F

 

 

Rev. F

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Floating-Point Unit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virtual Mode Extensions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debugging Extensions1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page-Size Extension

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time Stamp Counter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMD Model-Specific Registers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page Address Extensions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Machine Check Exception

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CMPXCHG8B Instruction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

APIC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SYSCALL and SYSRET

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Memory Type Range Registers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page Global Extension

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Machine Check Architecture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conditional Move Instruction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page Attribute Table

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page Size Extensions (PSE-36)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No-execute page protection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEM2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMD extensions to MMX™

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MMX™

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FXSAVE/FXRSTOR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fast FXSAVE/FXRSTOR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 GB Paging feature

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RDTSCP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long Mode2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMD Extensions to 3DNow!™

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3DNow! Instructions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virtualization Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 15-7: CPUID Extended Feature implementation

 

 

 

 

1Only read and write to debug registers is supported, side effects are not implemented.

2Controlled by FUSE state.

Appendix A

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4.4.5 specifications

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