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To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:31:28 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 0/9] powerpc: Add kernel support for POWER7 VSX. 
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The following set of patches adds Vector Scalar Extentions (VSX)
support for POWER7.  Includes context switch, ptrace and signals support.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
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Paulus: please consider for your 2.6.27 tree.

- Updated to remove the union that Kumar doesn't like.  I'm not sure I
  like like this version as much due to the magic offsets required to
  access the vsrlow.  It does clean up some other parts of the code
  though.