From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 19 21:27:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B065152C0 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 21:26:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03080 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 06:26:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 06:26:48 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912200526.GAA03080@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Randall Hopper wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > Hi. Is there a FreeBSD assembler out there which supports the AMD 3DNow > instruction set? NASM (in the ports) supports the older ones, but not the newer ones supported by the Athlon/K7. I sent patches to the author to support those, too, but nothing happened. > Why I ask: I attempted to build GLX/Mesa3.1 with 3DNow support, and it > bombed since our assembler isn't 3DNow-knowledgable (femms, pfmul, > etc. undefined). The assembler in -stable has the same shortcoming AFAICT. > > Facts? Rumors? I'm interested in anything you may know. Well, when I added 3DNow support to the Seti@home client, I assembled the 3DNow instructions "manually", i.e. I created small gas macros for that purpose. It's ugly, but it works. The 3DNow specification (with instruction codes) is available from www.amd.com. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message