Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 17:23:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> Cc: Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <frodef@acm.org>, "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>, Geff Hanoian <boing@kusanagi.boing.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MMX Message-ID: <199907020023.RAA02255@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Jul 1999 20:12:36 EDT." <19990701201236.A5532@ipass.net>
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> Seems like this would be perfect for the sysctl MIB. We have a few > CPU-related ones already: > > > sysctl -a | grep -i cpu > kern.ccpu: 1948 > hw.ncpu: 1 > > What about: > > hw.cpu.has_mmx: 1 > hw.cpu.has_3dnow: 1 > hw.cpu.has_sse: 0 > > In leiu of that, I believe I recall reading that the SIGILL approach works > on FreeBSD. Seems like Roger Hardiman uses/used MMX on FreeBSD for some of > his signal processing work. You might chat with him. I would recommend hw.cpu.feature: MMX,CPUID,MTRR etc. This is probably more extensible. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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