[Oberon] Multiprocessor without MMX (was: Restrictions of Oberon-Partitions?)

Thomas Frey thomas.frey at alumni.ethz.ch
Tue Nov 15 00:41:15 CET 2005


> As I read this E-Mail, I remembered trying to boot Blouebottle on a
> Multiprocessor-System with 2 Pentium I Processors, without MMX, and it
> didn't work. At that time I thought is must be the missing MMX-Support,
> now I wonder if it just could have been the same Problem described here,
> so setting MaxProccs=1 could solve it?

MMX is used if available but it is not required. For systems without
MMX alternative (slower) procedures are called. The same holds for SSE
and SSE2 Processor extensions.
So it might be worth a try with MaxProcs=1.

--Thomas


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