New TCP/IP checksum code and a HOWTO on how to modernize and fix FreeBSD's FP-unit use in the kernel (was Re: ether_crc32_[bl]e())

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 10:18 PM +0200 6/4/04, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 12:55:57 -0700 (PDT)
>Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
>
>>      You might also want to look at our new MMX/XMM optimized
>>      bcopy/copyin/copyout.
>
>I monitor the DFly newsgroups and have a special folder where I save
>some interesting commit logs. The memcpy/bcopy/bzero commit logs are
>already there... :-) But I don't think I will be able to do anything
>with them in the near future.
>
>Thanks for providing a guide,

Heh.  I have a few different things I have saved away too, and I
hope to get back to sometime this summer.  (not that one, though.
I don't do much of anything special with networking...)

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu