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From: "Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista.com>
To: Alex Shnitman <alexsh@hectic.net>, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Linux on Motorola Sandpoint/PPMC7400
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:27:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39AC2AB9.D47ADE73@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20000829201347.A30190@hectic.net


> Is there any book that you recommend to get me started? Any other
> docs/tips?

_I_ don't know of any books that will help much for board ports.  That doesn't
mean there aren't any...

> > I haven't tested with a 7400 but it should be fairly close if it doesn't work
> > right out of the box.  That is, work without altivec.  I don't know what's
> > involved to use the altivec support in Linux.
>
> In most kernels I've seen (fsmlabs', and I think yours too) there was
> a CONFIG_ALTIVEC option. What does it do?

I haven't looked at the altivec support in linux.  Unless someone asnwers this for
you, you'll have to dig into the kernel/driver code yourself to figure it out.

Did the switch settings help?

Mark


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-08-29 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-28 19:55 Linux on Motorola Sandpoint/PPMC7400 Alex Shnitman
2000-08-28 20:03 ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-08-28 20:35   ` Alex Shnitman
2000-08-28 21:01     ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-08-29 16:43       ` Alex Shnitman
2000-08-28 23:14 ` Mark A. Greer
2000-08-29 17:13   ` Alex Shnitman
2000-08-29 19:16     ` Mark A. Greer
2000-08-30 18:58       ` Alex Shnitman
2000-08-30 19:20         ` Mark A. Greer
2000-09-03  4:42         ` Bob Doyle
2000-09-04 10:37           ` Adrian Cox
2000-08-30 19:02       ` Alex Shnitman
2000-08-31  0:45         ` Matt Porter
2000-08-30 23:46           ` Dan Malek
2000-08-31 11:13             ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-08-31 15:01               ` Peter Tympanick
2000-08-29 21:27     ` Mark A. Greer [this message]
2000-08-29 14:04 ` Tom Roberts

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