Alan Cox told me that it may not go into the Kernel because it slows overal
system performance
Brian Paul wrote:
> ralf willenbacher wrote:
> >
> > mitch wrote:
> > >
> > > If I compile SSE support into mesa, can it access the registers without
> > > patching the kernel?
> >
> > no.. it would produce illegal instructions
> >
> > > Does the kernel patch just allow multiple uses or
> > > how does that work and what do I need to do? It would be nice if I could
> > > just compile with SSE support and not have to recompile my kernel.
> >
> > the kernel does not save/restore the xmm regs when switching a task
> > without the sse patch
>
> Ralf,
>
> Do you know if an upcoming version of the kernel will fix this?
>
> -Brian
>
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