x86 boot code build

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Oct 5 13:22:35 UTC 2012


Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> writes:
> So what ISA additions do you expect to get advantage of by switching
> to pentium-mmx from 486 ? As I already said, I am not aware of any.

The TSC, for one.  MMX, and the ability to use MMX registers to copy
data.

DES
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