On 12/21/2009 08:48 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Well, I wouldn't be too sure on that one. Software may use SSE3 instructions to access MMIO in which case we do have to emulate it.Unfortunately this is already a reality. Look here: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/ada9fa2d2574a8af
Emulating 16-byte moves is a tad simpler than emulating the whole of SSE3 though. :-)
Paolo