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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] powerpc: Emulate enough of SPE instructions to make
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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:13:24 -0500
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On Apr 2, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 05:04:47PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> +config SPE_EMULATION
>> +	bool "SPE Emulation Support"
>> +	depends on (CLASSIC32 || POWER4) && !ALTIVEC && !SPE
>> +	---help---
>> +	  This option enables kernel support for the Altivec extensions  
>> to the
>> +
>
> Looks like you kind of trailed off here... :)

Yeah, the patch is still a bit of a hack.. I'm just trying to gage  
interest.  If there is any than I'll spend some more effort to clean  
it up.

:)

- k