New DFly ISO CD image available 20040506
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri May 7 20:48:52 PDT 2004
:Okay, thanks. Meanwhile, is there any way for me to tell whether
:the kernel actually saw and honored the entry in loader.conf? Would
:I see error messages in the logs if something went wrong?
:
:My DFly box has been running just fine for 12 hours -- I hope I'm
:really testing the right code ;o)
Yes, the kernel prints a message when it installs the FP accellerated
copy routines.
egrep 'MMX|XMM' /var/run/dmesg.boot
with:
dhcp60:/home/dillon> egrep 'MMX|XMM' /var/run/dmesg.boot
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
Using MMX optimized bcopy/copyin/copyout
dhcp60:/home/dillon>
without:
leaf:/home/dillon> egrep 'MMX|XMM' /var/run/dmesg.boot
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
leaf:/home/dillon>
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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