From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 2 1:15:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE48B1500D; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 01:15:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA77736; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:20:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:20:02 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Assembler capable of supporting 3dnow! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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