Re: 3DNOW Question/MMX Support in 2.4.X tree

Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org)
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:01:41 -0700


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
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