From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: Altivec Vector code bug
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: John Whitney <jwhitney-linuxppc@sands-edge.com>
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:30:53 +1000
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On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 06:19, John Whitney wrote:
> The attached patch corrects the following problem with the Altivec
> vector:
>
> When running Linux 2.6.5-rc2 (Altivec NOT configured in) on a 7410-base
> platform, and running a program that attempts to use a vector register,
> the kernel will lock up.  This is due to vectoring to 0xf20, which is
> in the middle of the exception prolog as the exception handler is now
> written.

Thanks, forwarded upstream.

Ben.


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