From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39C382DF.772F2B99@mvista.com> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:25:35 -0400 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Holger Bettag CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: recent fixes in devel tree References: <14786.65401.393966.936283@argo.linuxcare.com.au> <8xk8cch9i7.fsf@s63.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Holger Bettag wrote: > P.S.: BTW, is there a general consensus wether or not AltiVec > enhancements in the kernel would be a good thing..... What kind of enhancements? I do a fair amount of audio/video processing on my G4 with the current gcc/Altivec tools. I found only one minor bug in the exception handler that I fixed a while back. We have been discussing some of the vector load/store/touch as both enhancements to the kernel and glibc. It is a little more challenging in the kernel because we would have to then keep some of the vector context around for the kernel, but in a very constrained case we could probably get some speed ups with that. -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/