Re: Athlon doesn't like Athlon optimisation?

From: David Hollister (david@digitalaudioresources.org)
Date: Sat Sep 01 2001 - 11:27:32 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
>>I'm on 2.4.9. No overclocking. I applied the patch that somebody (sorry,
>>forgot who) posted yesterday for arch/i386/lib/mmx.c and rebuilt the kernel with
>>Athlon optimization. It now works.
>>
>
> Well not really. The patch posted turns off athlon optimisation even though
> you selected it

Well, that's what I thought, too, since that was the only file in the kernel
source where CONFIG_MK7 was defined. Somebody pointed out to me, though, that
there are other defines that are turned on if you use Athlon settings, like
(from arch/i386/config.in):

CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC
CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW
CONFIG_X86_PGE

Although, looking at arch/i386/config.in again right now, I see none of these
are Athlon specific. That's what I get for trusting somebody else instead of
looking into it myself.

Thanks.

-- 
David Hollister
Driversoft Engineering:  http://devicedrivers.com
Digital Audio Resources: http://digitalaudioresources.org

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