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/
- References:
- Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- From: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <[email protected]>
- Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- From: [email protected] (Lennart Sorensen)
- Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- From: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <[email protected]>
- Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- From: [email protected] (Lennart Sorensen)
- Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- From: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <[email protected]>
- Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- From: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
- Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- From: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <[email protected]>
- Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- From: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
- Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- From: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <[email protected]>
- Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- From: "J.A. Magallón" <[email protected]>
- Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- From: James Courtier-Dutton <[email protected]>
- Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- Prev by Date: Re: [PATCH] w1-gpio: Add GPIO w1 bus master driver
- Next by Date: Re: [PATCH 21/63] ide-cd: remove unused and write-only struct ide_cd_config_flags fields
- Previous by thread: Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- Next by thread: Re: Trying to convert old modules to newer kernels
- Index(es):
 |