2005/10/4, Kevin D. Kissell <kevink@xxxxxxxx>:
> They also have some physical security and cryptography accelleration
> features, some of which use extended CPU state that would
> require some kernel context management support if anyone wanted
> to actually use them in Linux applications. The real point of
> having a CPU_4KSC config flag would be to enable building-in
> such support.
>
what is extended CPU state that you're talking about ?
> I'm being a teeny bit vague about this, because I'm not 100%
> certain that all the details of "SmartMIPS" have been published.
>
hmm, does that mean that smart mips extension couldn't be supported in
Linux in case that this extension have not been published ?
Thanks
--
Franck
