Re: A question about MMX.

2001-04-21 Thread Tim Walberg
MMX **is** potentially used in the md (RAID-5) code for parity calculation, IIRC, though. That's about the only place that I can think of that it's used, but I don't claim to know the inner workings of the entire kernel, either... tw On 04/21/2001 13:55 +0300, [EMAIL PRO

Re: A question about MMX.

2001-04-21 Thread lk
Thank you all who have responded my question. Have a nice day! /me On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserver, > > ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are > > used by the kernel in this ope

Re: A question about MMX.

2001-04-21 Thread Alan Cox
> I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserver, > ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are > used by the kernel in this operations or not (networking, X etc.). In almost all cases - no. The MMX instructions are mostly not useful. A few g

Re: A question about MMX.

2001-04-21 Thread Rasmus Bøg Hansen
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserver, > ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are > used by the kernel in this operations or not (networking, X etc.). I _think_ some MMX is used if y

A question about MMX.

2001-04-21 Thread lk
I have a Intel Pentium MMX machine and it acts as a mailserver, webserver, ftp and I use X on it. I would like to know if the MMX instructions are used by the kernel in this operations or not (networking, X etc.). Thank you, /me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu