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* Re: 3DNOW Question/MMX Support in 2.4.X tree
  2002-10-04 19:15 3DNOW Question/MMX Support in 2.4.X tree Jeff V. Merkey
@ 2002-10-04 18:45 ` Alan Cox
  2002-10-04 21:01   ` Jeff V. Merkey
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2002-10-04 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeff V. Merkey; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List

On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 20:15, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> I noticed that the MMX libraries seem tied to CYRIX and AMD builds 
> in the config scripts.  I am wondering if MMX support for Intel 
> is not supported in 2.4.X kernels except for these processor types.
> The code appears to be usable on Intel.

MMX copies are only a win on some processors, so we only use it in
kernel there. MMX itself works on all processors


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* 3DNOW Question/MMX Support in 2.4.X tree
@ 2002-10-04 19:15 Jeff V. Merkey
  2002-10-04 18:45 ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jeff V. Merkey @ 2002-10-04 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel



I noticed that the MMX libraries seem tied to CYRIX and AMD builds 
in the config scripts.  I am wondering if MMX support for Intel 
is not supported in 2.4.X kernels except for these processor types.
The code appears to be usable on Intel.

Can someone clarify the MMX support for kernel code in the 
current 2.4.X trees and how extensive it is for Intel?

Thanks

Jeff


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* Re: 3DNOW Question/MMX Support in 2.4.X tree
  2002-10-04 18:45 ` Alan Cox
@ 2002-10-04 21:01   ` Jeff V. Merkey
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jeff V. Merkey @ 2002-10-04 21:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alan Cox; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List



Alan,

Thanks for the prompt response.  I will test with P4 and see 
how much improvement there is.

:-)

Jeff

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:45:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 20:15, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > I noticed that the MMX libraries seem tied to CYRIX and AMD builds 
> > in the config scripts.  I am wondering if MMX support for Intel 
> > is not supported in 2.4.X kernels except for these processor types.
> > The code appears to be usable on Intel.
> 
> MMX copies are only a win on some processors, so we only use it in
> kernel there. MMX itself works on all processors

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