Pentium III SIMD support?

Volker W. Elling (elling@baer.rwth-aachen.de)
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:01:35 +0200 (MET DST)

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Hi,
I am trying to exploit the floating-point vector operations of Intel Pentium
III. "as" has support for the corresponding machine instructions, but I
keep getting SIGILL when trying "movups". (Yes, I checked for SIMD support
via "cpuid"). Does Linux save the xmm* registers during
context switches, set the proper flags in CR0/CR4 and so on ? Is somebody
working on these matters ?

-- Volker Elling Computer science/Mathematics, RWTH Aachen, Germany
-- http://lem.stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~elling

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