On Dec 21 2007 12:08, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > That being said, I don't think sse and mmx are available in kernel > space, so I would have suggested doing all the grunt work in > userspace would be better for this persons application so that he > could use sse and mmx etc. > They are available, you just need to pay attention not to trash a process's context.
IIRC this has been done for 387 FPUting. (The 'trigger' thing in save_i387() in arch/x86/i387_32.c probably.) Probably not for SSE. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/