On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:45:16AM +0100, Jakub Bogusz wrote: > To be fair it should be said explicitly, that for Th this also > means drop of support for i586 class CPUs and some "degraded" > i686 chips lacking cmov instructions support (there were such > VIA chips in mid 200x years, probably rare to find now).
I've got an (untested) patch by a colleague that should emulate CMOV on i586, could dust off the archives if there's anyone interested out there. It might also have been included in kernel-image-led-tc package. Optimizing for i586 (nee Pentium) is very wrong for pretty much any other x86 processor due to significant pipeline differences AFAIH... -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin / http://altlinux.org ------ http://opennet.ru / http://anna-news.info _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en