On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:57:29AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> The test11pre2 code will also not run on a K6-II/III
I'll look at this.
> Some of the "MMX" instructions are part of "3Dnow" according to AMD
> publications. This is especially true for the "prefetch" instructions which
> have a different memnonic/opcode on Intel CPU's.
If we don't use them on pure MMX-enabled machine, but only on 3Dnow
ones, what about renaming those *mmx* {files,funcs} to *3dnow* ?
> > > - BTW, what does this 512 stand for ? Especially as it's used in
> > several places, a #define would seem nice at first glance.
>
> The 512 is a rough estimate of the minimum size of the copy that makes it
> worth saving and restoring the extra processor-state for using mmx.
What about "#define MMX_MIN_ACCELERATED_COPYSIZE 512" in mmx.h ?
Er... s/MMX/3DNOW/ :)
Hm, noone commented my note about usercopy.c's 3dnow code being
possibly fixed by cut-and paste from elsewhere ?
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