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Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 04:37:18 +1100
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
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> 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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