From: Egon Alter <egon.alter@gmx.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft is planning Windows 8 to be 128-bit
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 11:30:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910091130.32906.egon.alter@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1255074577.26976.355.camel@twins>
Hi,
> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 19:20 -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> > The CPU architecture would have to exist first (it doesn't)
>
> And here I was going to ask Fred to send me such a machine so that I
> could port Linux for him ;-)
I think, what was meant here is the 128-bit (sse) and 256-bit (avx) vector
extentions of current and future processors. So if you want to run a small
kernel on your graphics card and/or on some vector units inside the main cpu,
128 and 256 bit registers are required.
Egon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-09 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-08 23:05 Microsoft is planning Windows 8 to be 128-bit Fred .
2009-10-08 23:19 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-10-08 23:20 ` Bryan Donlan
2009-10-09 7:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-09 9:30 ` Egon Alter [this message]
2009-10-09 14:04 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
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