On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 19:17, Bob Friesenhahn
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Richard Lowe wrote:
>
>>
>> none of the things in that bug affect your ability to use the
>> instructions.  Most are actually very minor.
>
>
> Are you sure?  This is only important issue that I see:
>
>  "kernel/context switch support to save/restore the new registers"

Yes.  I'm sure.  We use xsave/xrstore, which will save/restore %ymm.
The bug filer was apparently greatly confused about which parts of
this work were already done.

-- Rich


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