New global use flags: 3dnowext, mmxext, ssse3, sse4_1, avx, avx2. Rewritten descriptions for 3dnow, mmx, sse, sse2, sse3.

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/profiles/ChangeLog b/profiles/ChangeLog
index 7d54e0663131..eb617374e4a6 100644
--- a/profiles/ChangeLog
+++ b/profiles/ChangeLog
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 # ChangeLog for profile directory
 # Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/ChangeLog,v 1.8432 2013/12/18 10:17:48 wired Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/ChangeLog,v 1.8433 2013/12/18 18:34:16 mattst88 Exp $
 #
 # This ChangeLog should include records for all changes in profiles directory.
 # Only typo fixes which don't affect portage/repoman behaviour could be avoided
 # here. If in doubt put a record here!
 
+  18 Dec 2013; Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> use.desc:
+  New global use flags: 3dnowext, mmxext, ssse3, sse4_1, avx, avx2. Rewritten
+  descriptions for 3dnow, mmx, sse, sse2, sse3.
+
   18 Dec 2013; Alex Alexander <wired@gentoo.org> updates/2Q-2013:
   removed old slotmoves from 2Q-2013, they were conflicting with newer ones in
   4Q-2013 that revert them.
diff --git a/profiles/use.desc b/profiles/use.desc
index 31b8163cae3d..4216356a47dc 100644
--- a/profiles/use.desc
+++ b/profiles/use.desc
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.desc,v 1.510 2013/10/14 12:44:09 jlec Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.desc,v 1.511 2013/12/18 18:34:16 mattst88 Exp $
 
 # Keep them sorted
 
 3dfx - Enable support for Voodoo chipsets, also called as 3DFX and TDFX
-3dnow - Add support for 3dnow multimedia processor instructions
+3dnow - Use the 3DNow! instruction set
+3dnowext - Use the Enhanced 3DNow! instruction set
 X - Add support for X11
 Xaw3d - Add support for the 3d athena widget set
 a52 - Enable support for decoding ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD
@@ -25,8 +26,10 @@ apm - Add APM (Advanced Power Management) support
 aqua - Include support for the Mac OS X Aqua (Carbon/Cocoa) GUI
 atm - Enable Asynchronous Transfer Mode protocol support
 audiofile - Add support for libaudiofile where applicable
-ayatana - Build in support for Ayatana notification using the libindicate or libappindicator plugin
 avahi - Add avahi/Zeroconf support
+avx - Use the AVX instruction set
+avx2 - Use the AVX2 instruction set
+ayatana - Build in support for Ayatana notification using the libindicate or libappindicator plugin
 bash-completion - Enable bash-completion support
 bcmath - Add support for libbcmath
 berkdb - Add support for sys-libs/db (Berkeley DB for MySQL)
@@ -205,7 +208,8 @@ mime - Add MIME support
 minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins, fonts, most drivers, non-critical features)
 mmap - Add mmap (memory map) support
 mms - Support for Microsoft Media Server (MMS) streams
-mmx - Add support for optimizations for Pentium MMX and Athlon class processors
+mmx - Use the MMX instruction set
+mmxext - se the Extended MMX instruction set (intersection of Enhanced 3DNow! and SSE instruction sets) (3dnowext or sse in cpuinfo)
 mng - Add support for libmng (MNG images)
 modplug - Add libmodplug support for playing SoundTracker-style music files
 modules - Build the kernel modules
@@ -321,9 +325,11 @@ speex - Add support for the speex audio codec (used for speech)
 spell - Add dictionary support
 sqlite - Add support for sqlite - embedded sql database
 sqlite3 - Add support for sqlite3 - embedded sql database
-sse - Fast floating point optimization for PentiumIII+ class chips
-sse2 - Faster floating point optimization for SSE2 capable chips
-sse3 - Faster floating point optimization for SSE3 capable chips
+sse - Use the SSE instruction set
+sse2 - Use the SSE2 instruction set
+sse3 - Use the SSE3 instruction set (pni in cpuinfo)
+ssse3 - Use the SSSE3 instruction set
+sse4_1 - Use the SSE4.1 instruction set
 ssl - Add support for Secure Socket Layer connections
 startup-notification - Enable application startup event feedback mechanism
 static - !!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically linked instead of dynamically