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

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 13:45:27 EST


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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