Re: MMX emulator ?

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@trill.cis.fordham.edu)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 05:33:44 -0400


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From: Sylvain Pion <Sylvain.Pion@sophia.inria.fr>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 8:30 AM
Subject: MMX emulator ?

>Hi,
>
>I wondered whether there has been some thoughts about implementing an MMX
>emulator in the kernel, something like the FPU emulator. It sounds like a
>good idea, because we could run MMX apps on processors that don't support
it.
>But I'm not sure how easy it would be. Ideas ?
>

This should be doable and probably should be done. In fact I think this is
exactly the way it is done in Win95 OSR 2.x.

>--
>Sylvain
>
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