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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:38:37 +0100 (CET)
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <moffe@amagerkollegiet.dk>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Disabling FPU, MMX, SSE units?
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > Is there way not to let linux use FPU, MMX, SSE and similar fancy
> > units? I have athlon processor, but would like to turn FPU (and
> > similar fancy stuff) off...
> 
>  You may use "no387" to disable FPU and MMX (they are controlled by a
> single bit in cr0).  No idea about SSE.

Running a kernel optimized for 386 should leave out MMX, SSE and similar 
fancy instrucion sets IIRC.

Rasmus

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