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From: David Bronaugh <dbronaugh@linuxboxen.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Patch to enable K6-2 and K6-3 processor optimizations
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 01:48:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020809014840.4e81fbd3.dbronaugh@linuxboxen.org> (raw)

Hi,

This is my first kernel patch, so please go easy on me :)

What it does is conditionally enable -march=k6-2 and -march=k6-3, and provide options for each in the Processor Type and Features menu.

This is conditional on the compiler supporting it; as of this writing only GCC 3.1 does. I compiled this kernel successfully with this patch on my K6-III and am presently running this kernel.

It also enables 3DNow in the case of the K6-III; I wasn't sure if 3DNow might imply the extended Athlon 3DNow instructions, so I only enabled it for the K6-III, which I know supports it.

Anyhow, that's all.

David Bronaugh

ps: This is pretty trivial to apply for other CPUs too; as I understand it several different CPU types gained their own architecture strings with GCC 3.1

             reply	other threads:[~2002-08-09  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-09  8:48 David Bronaugh [this message]
2002-08-09 10:31 ` Patch to enable K6-2 and K6-3 processor optimizations Alan Cox
2002-08-09 17:28   ` David Bronaugh
2002-08-09 16:45 ` Josh McKinney
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2002-08-09  8:52 David Bronaugh

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