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From"Anthony Barbachan" <>
SubjectRe: MMX emulator ?
DateWed, 17 Jun 1998 05:33:44 -0400
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From: Sylvain Pion <Sylvain.Pion@sophia.inria.fr>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 8:30 AM
Subject: MMX emulator ?

>Hi,
>
>I wondered whether there has been some thoughts about implementing an MMX
>emulator in the kernel, something like the FPU emulator.  It sounds like a
>good idea, because we could run MMX apps on processors that don't support
it.
>But I'm not sure how easy it would be.  Ideas ?
>

This should be doable and probably should be done.  In fact I think this is
exactly the way it is done in Win95 OSR 2.x.

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>Sylvain
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