[SunRescue] help a guy run 2.6 on his 670MP

[Dave McGuire]

  It's what MMX should have been.  It's very impressive.  I still
believe that this sort of thing simply doesn't belong in the central
processor, but it's still impressive. :-)  For more information about
VIS stuff, see http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/vis/.

  It is possible to write code that uses the VIS instructions in a
32-bit mode.

         -Dave McGuire

On May 16, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> VIS instruction set?  Is that like MMX?  If so, it shouldn't be too hard
> to add support under NetBSD, should it?  Or does NetBSD only run in 32bit
> mode and VIS in 64bit mode?
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> >   I went back to NetBSD and have been happy ever since.  Though
> > currently I'm developing an application under Solaris7 because I
> > wanted to make use of the Ultrasparc's VIS instruction set.  While
> > it's nowhere near as "clean" as a nice modern NetBSD load, I'm
> > impressed with Solaris7 so far.  And that's a lot coming from a
> > long-time Solaris hater like me.
> 
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