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To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au,
	Andrew Reilly <andrew@lake.com.au>
Subject: Re: Pentium-III and FreeBSD?
References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905072323390.18703-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905072323390.18703-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
    from Doug Rabson at "Fri, 07 May 1999 23:25:15 +0100"
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 21:30:52 +1000
From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
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On Friday, 7th May 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:

>If you fix this, I can review it. I more or less promised this support to
>the XFree86 folks if they started using the extra state.  You should also
>consider the AMD 3DNow! stuff which also has extra state I think.

3DNow! overlays the same FP registers that MMX overlays.  But it has a
cute cache line prefetch instruction that might be useful in some areas
(I'm thinking bcopy/bzero).  I can test K6-2 specfic stuff, but can't seem
to find the time to write any. :-(

Stephen.


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