Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:02:10 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Katmai/PIII support in Redhat kernels |
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Hi,
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:34:31 -0700, David Dunn <ddunn@transmeta.com> said:
> I need to know if support for KNI has propagated into > supported kernels. In particular, Redhat kernels. I need > this on my workstation, but can't afford to get out on the > hairy edge where MIS won't support me.
I think that a lot of Linux people have been experimenting with in-kernel speed optimisations, not just for KNI but for MMX checksum and fp-based bulk copy --- all sorts of speed hacks. However, ...
> The basic features I'm interested in are correct context > switching (fxsave/fxrstor) and dispatching KNI exceptions > (vector 19) back to the user application.
...I don't know of any patches which export KNI functionality to user space.
--Stephen
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