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Subject: Re: Why does C3 CPU downgrade in kernel 2.4.20?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>
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On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 19:39, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Do you have pointers to some optimisation manual or whatever?
> gcc currently defines the c3 as 486+mmx+3dnow however I doubt 
> that this model is entirely correct and as such leaves some 
> space for improvements.

VIA are a little odd at times. A vendor that doesn't publish CPU manuals
and push optimisation data at app writers is -odd- by my standards
anyway. I've been discussing a few things with VIA recently and we'll
see what happens over time.

Alan

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