On 4/4/07, Alexey Petrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2007/4/4, Gregory Shimansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Evgueni Brevnov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Seems like this is not a technical discussion anyway I did some > > expiriments on my Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) PentiumIII > > machine. Additionally to HARMONY-3246 it required a few modifications > > in sources and proper arguments to the compiler to run HelloWord and > > other applications. I can provide a patch with modifications to > > building system to build PentiumIII friendly VM. Is anyone intrested > > in this? > > I would like to see these modifications. I wonder what you've done in > port/src/thread/linux/apr_thread_ext.c and vmcore/include/atomics.h. > They contain mfence and sfence instructions in inline assembly which > have to be changed to something else on P3. Can we produce separate binary build for P3 if it is not easy to replace mfence/sfence?
Jitrino can use runtime detection of CPU features supported and emit appropriate code. Can we do the same with VM (check flag) to avoid multiple distributions? -- Mikhail Fursov
