From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 20 10:20:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3757A14A05 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:20:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id SAA23154 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:31:38 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA00612 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:37:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:37:08 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991220173708.B544@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <199912200526.GAA03080@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912200526.GAA03080@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de on Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:26:48AM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:26:48AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > 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. Being the curious kind: what speed difference did you observe? -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message