Holger Waechtler wrote:
>
> Hallo Brian,
>
> > Add -DUSE_3DNOW_ASM to your CFLAGS to enable it.
> >
> Perhaps it's a good Idea to create a new target linux-3dnow-elf in the
> Makefile ??
Yes, I'll do that.
> > I'm unable to test as I have a PII CPU.
> >
> > Holger also included a test_3dnow program to detect if your CPU
> > is in fact 3DNow-capable. However, it returned true on my PII
> > so there's something funny going on.
> >
> I'll have a look on it. Since I don't have access to a PII, you will have
> to test next version too. sorry -
> (On a Cyrix 6x86 MX it works correct)
OK, perhaps someone else on the dev list can take a look.
> If any future version of Mesa uses autoconf, the configure script could
> test, if it is able to compile this test program successfully. If not,
> the target architecture doesn't supports the 3Dnow-commands. Or the
> binutils are too old.
> Then the test program could run, and if it returns true (and works
> correct ;), the -DUSE_3DNOW_ASM could be set.
I'm hesitant to switch to autoconfig at this time. Perhaps after 3.1
is finished.
> > Holger, would you like to be added to the Mesa-dev mailing list?
> >
> would be nice.
Done, you're on the list. You should get this message twice.
> Next days I'll send you the transformation routines for 4D points.
> Possibly some of the normal transforms too.
Sounds good.
-Brian
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