Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:37:08 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991220173708.B544@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199912200526.GAA03080@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de on Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:26:48AM %2B0100 References: <199912200526.GAA03080@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 06:26:48AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Randall Hopper wrote in list.freebsd-stable:
> > Hi. Is there a FreeBSD assembler out there which supports the AMD 3DNow
> > instruction set?
>
> NASM (in the ports) supports the older ones, but not the newer
> ones supported by the Athlon/K7. I sent patches to the author
> to support those, too, but nothing happened.
>
> > Why I ask: I attempted to build GLX/Mesa3.1 with 3DNow support, and it
> > bombed since our assembler isn't 3DNow-knowledgable (femms, pfmul,
> > etc. undefined). The assembler in -stable has the same shortcoming AFAICT.
> >
> > Facts? Rumors? I'm interested in anything you may know.
>
> Well, when I added 3DNow support to the Seti@home client, I
> assembled the 3DNow instructions "manually", i.e. I created
> small gas macros for that purpose. It's ugly, but it works.
Being the curious kind: what speed difference did you observe?
--
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