Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:20:02 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@freebsd.org> Cc: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Assembler capable of supporting 3dnow! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908020919290.385-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908011121560.81410-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > > I'm messing around with the latest mesa and have discovered (suprise)that our > > assembler doesn't support 3dnow instructions. Are there any plans to update to > > a version of binutils that does? Linux's stuff appears to support it. > > > > According to dfr, no, since the releases are in "beta" now or something. > I think it's worth updating. And no, it would be too hard to get 3DNow! > wihtouut updating gas. However: you can use the linux_devutils gcc/as/ld > etc. to build the parts of whatever you need with 3dnow instructions. There are no public betas that I can find. The only updates to binutils publically available seem to be the Linux patchsets :-(. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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