Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:43:34 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels |
| |
On Dec 21 2007 12:08, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> That being said, I don't think sse and mmx are available in kernel > space, so I would have suggested doing all the grunt work in > userspace would be better for this persons application so that he > could use sse and mmx etc. > They are available, you just need to pay attention not to trash a process's context.
IIRC this has been done for 387 FPUting. (The 'trigger' thing in save_i387() in arch/x86/i387_32.c probably.) Probably not for SSE.
| |