Re: Katmai/PIII support in Redhat kernels

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:38:59 +0100 (BST)


> I use the PIII SSE/KNI/SIMD instructions extensively from userspace. I
> really wish PIII support was in the mainstream kernel, but the
> PIII stuff seems to have missed the 2.3 feature freeze, so they likely
> won't make 2.4. Is this true? It would be rather sad.

Its been discussed for 2.4 just before Linus left, so hopefully its ok
There are some non trivial problems left to resolve yet

Alan

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