https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/AVX-support-in-Linux/m-p/764698#M5 <P>Anyone knows of which version of RHEL will support AVX ? <BR /><BR />Will RHEL 5.5 support AVX ? <BR /><BR /><BR />Any info or links/contact persons will be appreciated ? <BR /><BR />Thanks, --Yariv</P> Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:29:52 GMT Yariv_A_Intel2 2010-12-14T21:29:52Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/AVX-support-in-Linux/m-p/764698#M5 <P>Anyone knows of which version of RHEL will support AVX ? <BR /><BR />Will RHEL 5.5 support AVX ? <BR /><BR /><BR />Any info or links/contact persons will be appreciated ? <BR /><BR />Thanks, --Yariv</P> Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:29:52 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/AVX-support-in-Linux/m-p/764698#M5 Yariv_A_Intel2 2010-12-14T21:29:52Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/AVX-support-in-Linux/m-p/764699#M6 Linux: supported since kernel version 2.6.30 released on June 9, 2009.<BR /><BR />It looks like RHEL uses 2.6.18 so it won't be supported unless the kernel is updated.<BR />RHEL 6.0 with kernel 2.6.32 will support it.<BR /><BR /><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions</A><BR /><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux</A><BR /><BR />You can find references to specific details on the Wikipedia pages.<BR /> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:15:09 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/AVX-support-in-Linux/m-p/764699#M6 craigj0 2010-12-15T11:15:09Z