On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:24:20PM -0700, Denis Serenyi wrote:
> After searching the hackers archives, I'm guessing that this is because
> FreeBSD 4.3 does not execute the instructions at boot time to enable SSE
> instructions to be executed, and also because FreeBSD 4.3 does not save
> the 128-bit SIMD registers on context switches.
>
> Am I correct in this assessment?
Yep.
> It also seems like this support has been added to FreeBSD 4.5. Is this
> correct?
Yes - it was added before 4.4 I think.
> Assuming yes, in what release was SSE support added to FreeBSD? Has
> anyone done a patch that can be applied to FreeBSD 4.3, or are the
> changes non-trivial?
The commit message mentions:
http://www.issei.org/issei/FreeBSD/sse.html
http://kobe1995.net/~kaz/FreeBSD/SSE.en.html
and I think there are patches available for 4.3 from one of those
sites.
David.
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