On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:28:28PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > Note that you'll need to have 'options CPU_ENABLE_SSE' in your kernel
> > configuration file if you have a SSE-capable CPU, otherwise you'll get
> > SIGILL from certain applications (e.g. ncurses)
>
> What if you don't want to do
Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > I assume the compiler is not stupid enough to try and use both when that
> > is impossible. Don't forget this is all just passing a CPU name to gcc
> > which actually decides what instructions to use.
>
> That's not what I mean... What I mean is that if one application
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:49:41PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > I assume the compiler is not stupid enough to try and use both when that
> > is impossible. Don't forget this is all just passing a CPU name to gcc
> > which actually decides what instructions to use.
>
> That's not what I mean.
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:28:28PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> Athlon XP processors support SSE instructions, but not at the same
> time as 3dnow instructions. The processor has to switch modes or
> something like that. What if a user wants to actually use the 3dnow
> instructions? Does this m
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 06:15:29PM -0700, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> mux 2002/09/06 18:15:29 PDT
>
> Modified files:
> share/mk bsd.cpu.mk
> Log:
> Update to use all the new CPU optimizations of GCC3.
>
> Reviewed by:kris
Note that you'll need to have 'option
