SSE support in 2.4.x

[James Macnicol]

> > default without needing a kernel patch as was required for 2.2.x.  Can
> > someone then explain why I get a SIGILL doing the following :
> 
> No, but there's an additional datapoint; it dies on the mov, not the
> psadbw. My kernel is not compiled with the PIII option set....

  Okay.  Now I see what's going on.  The problem was that MOVQ wasn't
the instruction I wanted anyway (if only because it was only going to
fill half the SSE register).  Changing MOVQ to MOVUPS solved the
problem.


Thanks.



James