From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 6 6:44:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [207.175.42.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9B4156D7 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 06:44:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zab@zabbo.net) Received: from hoser.devel (hoser.devel.redhat.com [207.175.42.139]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA16090; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:44:39 -0400 Received: from localhost (zab@localhost) by hoser.devel (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA28785; Thu, 6 May 1999 09:44:39 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: hoser.devel: zab owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:44:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Zach Brown X-Sender: zab@hoser To: Andrew Reilly Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium-III and FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <99042118082205.43091@gurney.reilly.home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Andrew Reilly wrote: > a) tweaking as to understand the new (KNI SIMD float) instructions. > b) tweaking cc (egcs) to emit those, if it can (much less likely, my guess) > c) tweaking the kernel to save and restore the new state on task switches. its also quite worth using the magical cache instructions (prefecth, cache avoiding stores) in some parts of the kernel. We're having fun with these in parts of the linux kernel. Mail me if you want to discuss things further :) -- zach - - - - - - 007 373 5963 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message