From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: C H Forsyth Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:37:28 +0000 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <49240414.7050107@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-xeffrkdjwifsgfgsvdqaikfmlq" Subject: Re: [9fans] SSE on Plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 499cc464-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-xeffrkdjwifsgfgsvdqaikfmlq Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit the amd64 compiler uses only SSE. i thought about putting it in 8[acl] and might have asked about that here, but i think i concluded at the time that 64-bit would appear on all boards. for 32-bit i wouldn't bother trying to mix the 387 and SSE, so there would be two 386 environments, old and new, which seemed a big nuisance. --upas-xeffrkdjwifsgfgsvdqaikfmlq Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from gouda.swtch.com ([67.207.142.3]) by doppio; Wed Nov 19 12:28:52 GMT 2008 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=gouda.swtch.com) by gouda.swtch.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from <9fans-bounces@9fans.net>) id 1L2m0y-0001mr-Ce; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:18:36 +0000 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by gouda.swtch.com with smtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1L2m0x-0001mm-5u for 9fans@9fans.net; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:18:35 +0000 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2008 12:18:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [192.168.0.23]) [217.16.163.27] by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 19 Nov 2008 13:18:28 +0100 X-Authenticated: #10700799 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1899soQA7o9zv3XWyIhSBwoYDykI3FC+y3DZH7FMq e9ykHD8O3NSOyH Message-ID: <49240414.7050107@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:18:28 +0100 From: Kernel Panic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.8 Subject: [9fans] SSE on Plan9 X-BeenThere: 9fans@9fans.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.9fans.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: 9fans-bounces@9fans.net Errors-To: 9fans-bounces+forsyth=vitanuova.com@9fans.net I see linux code doing SSE instructions. Has anyone started SSE support for plan9 kernel yet? Will the AMD64 port contain SSE support? -- cinap --upas-xeffrkdjwifsgfgsvdqaikfmlq--