assembly - How to move 128-bit immediates to XMM registers

Question

There already is a question on this, but it was closed as "ambiguous" so I'm opening a new one - I've found the answer, maybe it will help others too.

The question is: how do you write a sequence of assembly code to initialize an XMM register with a 128-bit immediate (constant) value?

Answer 1

Just wanted to add that one can read about generating various constants using assembly in Agner Fog's manual Optimizing subroutines in assembly language, Generating constants, section 13.8, page 124.