Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 1999 20:43:27 -0400 | From | Aaron Tiensivu <> | Subject | Re: Pentium III's SSE instructions |
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> Is there a kernel patch for 2.2.9 that enables the new Pentium III > streaming SIMD instructions (SSE/KNI)? In the archives I see mention of > a patch by Ingo Molnar (PIII/Katmai & FXSAVE support), but I am > wondering if there is a newer version out there somewhere.
Binutils would be your best bet for actually using the SSE ops, but the 2.2.1 patch posted earlier goes in cleanly to 2.2.10-pre1 except for the small patch to Configure.help, but that's no big deal.
I've been using it ever since it came out.. works great. :)
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