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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:14:42 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] grid computing -- high performance?
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On Fri Sep 24 18:07:47 EDT 2004, newsham@lava.net wrote:
> > We have versions of 8a and 8l which have MMX/SSE support but they are
> > not installed because there is probably a compatibility issue with old
> > object files.
> 
> For MMX, the p9 kernel doesnt need to do anything special, but the kernel
> has to enable SSE and provide storage for the extra registers during
> context switches, doesn't it?  Is this in the kernel?
> 
> > --jim
> 
> Tim N.

It's not in the distributed kernel, but that's where it needs to be, yes.

--jim