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From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3DNOW Question/MMX Support in 2.4.X tree
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:01:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021004140141.A29819@vger.timpanogas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1033757127.31839.49.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:45:27PM +0100



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

      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-04 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-04 19:15 Jeff V. Merkey
2002-10-04 18:45 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-04 21:01   ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]

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