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

[Joshua D. Boyd]

n Thu, 17 May 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >  i just don't think Sun has released enough documentation
> > on VIS for the NetBSD crew to get it working. ICBW.
<snip>
>   As far as I can tell, it's not an issue of OS support...it's an
> issue of compiler & assembler support.

To the extent that it might be an OS issue is if the OS needs to do extra
work for context switching.  I don't know about VIS, but I believe that
MMX needed some kernel adjustments to deal with context switching. 


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Joshua Boyd