Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:01:41 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: 3DNOW Question/MMX Support in 2.4.X tree |
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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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