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Subject: Re: 3DNOW Question/MMX Support in 2.4.X tree
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
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On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 20:15, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> I noticed that the MMX libraries seem tied to CYRIX and AMD builds 
> in the config scripts.  I am wondering if MMX support for Intel 
> is not supported in 2.4.X kernels except for these processor types.
> The code appears to be usable on Intel.

MMX copies are only a win on some processors, so we only use it in
kernel there. MMX itself works on all processors

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