From: Sacha Varma <sacha@ssl.co.uk>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: altivec
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 12:29:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3785DD1F.B853E731@ssl.co.uk> (raw)
Some questions about altivec & LinuxPPC:
1. is there a free C compiler supporting altivec instructions for
linuxPPC?
2. would it be possible to trap altivec instructions on a non-altivec
processor and reroute them through code using generic instructions?
(I believe this is how Apple's MacOS altivec simulator does it).
Presumably there is a bad instruction interrupt or something and
code in the kernel to trap these interrupts? (Excuse my naivety;
I'm more of a kernel user than hacker - for now!)
3. has anyone written a C library to simulate the altivec instructions?
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sacha varma : system simulation ltd : sacha@ssl.co.uk
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-09 11:29 Sacha Varma [this message]
1999-07-09 12:14 ` altivec Holger Bettag
1999-07-09 13:04 ` altivec Mike DeSimone
1999-07-09 15:33 ` altivec Holger Bettag
1999-07-10 0:41 ` altivec Mike DeSimone
1999-07-14 10:17 ` altivec sean o'malley
1999-07-14 21:04 ` altivec Matt Porter
1999-07-14 21:42 ` altivec Josh Huber
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-09-10 10:32 altivec Sacha Varma
1999-09-10 11:59 ` altivec Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-09-10 12:27 ` altivec Sacha Varma
1999-09-10 17:43 ` altivec Brad Midgley
1999-09-10 17:51 ` altivec Brad Midgley
1999-09-10 18:02 ` altivec Vitaly Oratovsky
1999-09-10 17:39 ` altivec David Edelsohn
1999-07-20 17:04 altivec David DeHaven
1999-07-20 17:04 altivec David DeHaven
1999-07-20 17:04 altivec David DeHaven
[not found] <Pine.PMDF.3.96.990715091130.538970498B-100000@uni.edu>
1999-07-15 16:11 ` altivec Matt Porter
1999-07-15 16:22 ` altivec Jason Haas
1999-07-15 16:29 ` altivec Josh Huber
1999-07-15 12:14 ` altivec sean o'malley
1999-07-15 17:36 ` altivec Matt Porter
1999-07-16 6:29 ` altivec Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-07-16 14:47 ` altivec Matt Porter
1999-06-21 14:34 Altivec sean o'malley
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