From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Mar 14 22:31:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from maple.ocn.ne.jp (maple.ocn.ne.jp [202.234.233.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA4437B804 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:31:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nakai@gnome.gr.jp) Received: from ultra7 (p30-dna13marunouchi.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.235.158]) by maple.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with SMTP id PAA14554; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:30:46 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:27:52 +0900 From: Yukihiro Nakai To: vallo@matti.ee Cc: steve@snuggly.demon.co.uk, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gogo + 3dnow In-Reply-To: <20000314140635.A50609@myhakas.matti.ee> References: <38CE2232B4.00EFNAKAI@maple.ocn.ne.jp> <20000314140635.A50609@myhakas.matti.ee> Message-Id: <38CF2D68212.CDCDNAKAI@maple.ocn.ne.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver 1.25.04 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > As I understand the PIII SSE instructions have no use at the moment. > What are the reasons FreeBSD doesn't support SSE? Is it hard work to do > or mostly missing developer time? Just no one do that. (There are many such things in our free soft world. :) Linux supports SSE only because Intel officially made SSE patch for them. There are some people tried that, but it seems stopped. Some very small result are done but not total thing. Below is: http://www.jp.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/show-mail/FreeBSD-tech-jp/2642 (Japanese) There is a test code(sse_test.c), patches for FreeBSD 3.3(SSE.diff). It enables only single process using SSE on a SSE processer. I've not tried it yet. ----- Nakai To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message