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From: Tim Walberg <tewalberg@mediaone.net>
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Subject: Re: A question about MMX.
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MMX **is** potentially used in the md (RAID-5) code for parity
calculation, IIRC, though. That's about the only place that I
can think of that it's used, but I don't claim to know the
inner workings of the entire kernel, either...

			tw


On 04/21/2001 13:55 +0300, lk@aniela.eu.org wrote:
>>=09
>>	I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserve=
r,
>>	ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are
>>	used by the kernel in this operations or not (networking, X etc.).
>>=09
>>=09
>>	Thank you,
>>=09
>>	/me
>>=09
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