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From: Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 21:21:31 +0200
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] broken floating point exceptions and fpregs
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did not publish it yet, but we have what=20
could be called a nix mark II, comes
with a new mount table and a fossil
speaking 9pix, plus a new scheduler.=20

It does not have al the stuff like graphics in the modified mark I nix=20
you have, but, the new stuff should be
easy to use on it.=20

give us a bit more time and we will put=20
the new bits somewhere.=20

hth

On May 25, 2013, at 5:02 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

> On Sat May 25 09:59:39 EDT 2013, khm-9@intma.in wrote:
>> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 09:47:05AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
>>>=20
>>> why don't we just let the 386 kernel rest in peace and use
>>> 64-bit for sse?
>>=20
>> Let's all go buy new computers instead of using the ones we have?
>=20
> x86_64 has been around since 2003, and on nearly every x86 machine for
> the last 8 years.  sse2 has been around since 2001.  there is not a large
> percentage of currently-running x86 machines that have sse2 but do not hav=
e
> x64-bit extensions, and this percentage is generally decreasing.
>=20
> i put sse2 in the 386 kernel a few years ago, before the compilers support=
ed
> it.  this was to support a linuxemu project.  the linux tools needed sse.
>=20
> however, when it came to putting sse2 into a general kernel=E2=80=94and th=
at
> includes answering questions cinap is posing, like how do we deal with
> different abis in the debugger, etc.=E2=80=94it seemed more disruption tha=
n it
> was worth.  now that the 64-bit kernel is real, and supports even low-end
> hardware like atom, i would rather concentrate on making
> the 64-bit kernel better.
>=20
> - erik