From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.mailbox.co.uk (smtp.mailbox.net.uk [195.82.125.32]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16CD67A79 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:37:16 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <41EEA1C7.7060802@jonmasters.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:07:03 +0000 From: Jon Masters MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kumar Gala References: <1106120622.10851.42.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: Linux Kernel list , linuxppc-dev list , Linus Torvalds , Paul Mackerras , "H. Peter Anvin" , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Kumar Gala wrote: > We did talk about looking at using some work Ben did in ppc64 with OF in > ppc32. John Masters was looking into this, but I havent heard much from > him on it lately. I went rather quiet since I had nothing new to add to the discussion. But I did plan to get somewhere before FOSDEM (next month) so I could at least talk to the guys there about it - this is really taking a backseat as I've little time for it and no BDI2000/etc. at home :-) > The firmware interface on the ppc32 embedded side is some what broken in > my mind. It's absolutely broken and needs fixing - perhaps if someone wants to work with me on it, we'd get it sorted more quickly. Cheers, Jon.