Re: Linux 2.4.21rc6-ac2

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 08:58:19AM -0400, David van Hoose wrote:
 > Margit Schubert-While wrote:
 > >Alan, a few things that I think should be in (and for the next rc ?) -
 > >1) Force inline for >= gcc 3.3
 > >2) -march=  for pentium3/4
 > >3) Radeon 9k support
 > >4) Junk the chipset id'ing in agp_support.h
 > >     (Not in DRI/DRM mainline and not in 2.5)
 > >Margit
 > 
 > I agree on the march support. I've been using my own trivial patch for 
 > the i386 Makefile to have direct support for the P3 and P4. Just trying 
 > to figure out whether adding sse2 support on the compile line will 
 > create problems. GCC does not use SSE(2) unless you explicitly tell it to.

and should only make a difference for floating point code.
Which the kernel doesn't use.

This was brought up a few weeks back on the list.

		Dave