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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
Cc: Nathan Ingersoll <ningerso@ruralcenter.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Runtime Altivec detection
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 04:37:18 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030307173717.GA22556@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E68D5BF.1050906@embeddededge.com>



> For some time now the Linux kernel has provided support for emulating
> the 'mfspr rd, PVR' instruction in user space.  Do this once, get the
> PVR and determine the processor type.

That will fail on a ppc64 box since we havent implemented that
emulation.

Anton

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-07 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-07 16:47 Runtime Altivec detection Nathan Ingersoll
2003-03-07 17:24 ` Dan Malek
2003-03-07 17:35   ` Nathan Ingersoll
2003-03-07 17:37   ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2003-03-07 17:41   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-07 17:52     ` Nathan Ingersoll
2003-03-07 18:55     ` Magnus Damm
2003-03-07 18:06       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-07 18:18       ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-03-07 18:54 ` Magnus Damm
2003-03-07 18:08   ` Nathan Ingersoll
2003-03-07 19:44     ` Magnus Damm
2003-03-07 19:23       ` Nathan Ingersoll
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-08  2:02 Bill Fink
2003-03-08  2:11 ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-03-08  8:04   ` Bill Fink
2003-03-08 18:21     ` Nathan Ingersoll
2003-03-09  4:01 Albert Cahalan

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