Re: Task switching and Katmai

David Jonsson (David.Jonsson@ellemtel.se)
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:29:22 +0100

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At 15:27 1998-12-28 +0100, you wrote:
>> Who is responsible for the task switching under Linux? (I mean who wrote
>> it?) I like to know when they will add support for Katmai. Can anyone point
>> to intel website about in depth technical information about the Katmai
>> processor?
>>
>> Katmai will be a real performance booster.
>
>Chuckle, pray - how do you know that when you dont even know where the
>specification is ;)

I have read enough about this CPU to be convinced. There is an article in
Microprocessor Report October 5 1998. The opcodes are avaliable at
http://www.sandpile.org/ . I have not been able to find info at Intel.

Just the cache management should be interesting to many developers.

David

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