From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: Paul Mackerras From: Michael Neuling Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:07:17 +1000 Subject: [PATCH 0/9] powerpc: Add kernel support for POWER7 VSX. In-Reply-To: <1214305069.538931.136638600960.qpush@coopers> Message-Id: <1214366837.623950.515350956858.qpush@coopers> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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 --- Paulus: please consider for your 2.6.27 tree. Updates this post.... - White space change in start_thread thanks to Paulus - thread_struct change/cleanup suggested thanks to Paulus. This also resulted in changing TS_FPRSPACING to TS_FPRWIDTH - pointer to array fix, thanks to Kumar - indexing macro fix in ptrace32 thanks to Kumar - moved SAVE/REST_32FPVSRS to where they are used in fpu.S suggested by Kumar This time for sure!