From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Denis Zaitsev <zzz@cd-club.ru>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: FIXED_486_STRING ?
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 03:03:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020415030355.D20383@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020413224743.A13355@natasha.zzz.zzz> <32667.1018744038@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <20020414024406.A16692@suse.de> <20020415063825.A2691@natasha.zzz.zzz>
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 06:38:26AM +0600, Denis Zaitsev wrote:
> Yes, the special code for Pentium is important for it, as that code is
> faster and shorter. The last signature in string-486.h is of
> 2000/05/09, so, if this is true, the problems have not been fixed.
> So, what is the real situation? I would like to fix the code, and it
> seems that I'm not alone :)
Petko Manolov <lz5mj@yahoo.com> did some work on them circa 2.4.0test.
His patch is at http://www.dce.bg/~petkan/linux/string-486.diff
Aparently there are still 1-2 problems with these routines which is
why he hasn't pushed for inclusion I guess.
--
| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-15 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-13 16:47 FIXED_486_STRING ? Denis Zaitsev
2002-04-14 0:27 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-14 0:44 ` Dave Jones
2002-04-15 0:38 ` Denis Zaitsev
2002-04-15 1:03 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-04-15 1:25 ` Denis Zaitsev
2002-04-15 1:36 ` Dave Jones
2002-04-15 1:46 ` Denis Zaitsev
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