From: Holger Bettag <hobold@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_ALTIVEC=y
Date: 24 May 2000 18:39:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8xitw3ewcc.fsf@s63.informatik.uni-bremen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Nicholas Coult's message of Tue, 23 May 2000 11:42:07 -0500 (CDT)
Nicholas Coult <coult@ima.umn.edu> writes:
>
> When a kernel is compiled with CONFIG_ALTIVEC=y, I assume this
> means that the kernel is aware of the Altivec registers, and keeps
> track of their contents during context switches? And that code
> which uses Altivec instructions/registers will run properly with such
> a kernel?
>
Yes.
Holger
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-24 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-23 16:42 CONFIG_ALTIVEC=y Nicholas Coult
2000-05-24 16:39 ` Holger Bettag [this message]
2000-05-24 16:59 ` CONFIG_ALTIVEC=y Giuliano Pochini
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