From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <9909101739.AA34034@marc.watson.ibm.com> To: Sacha Varma Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: altivec In-Reply-To: Message from Sacha Varma of "Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:32:36 BST." <37D8DE44.9AE2C717@ssl.co.uk> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:39:31 -0400 From: David Edelsohn Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >>>>> Sacha Varma writes: Sacha> Has any progress been made on LinuxPPC Altivec support? I posted a while back Sacha> and there was some discussion, I wondered if anyone was taking it further. I Sacha> suppose the arrival of G4 Macs in a few weeks' time will help kickstart things. Sacha> It would be great if AIM took the lead in this sort of work... Sacha> The issues as I remember them: Sacha> .. support in egcs for the Altivec C language extensions, Sacha> hopefully C++ also (someone said they had patches supplied Sacha> by Motorola, but I've not found mention of these on the Sacha> Motorola SPS site so I assume they're not for general Sacha> consumption) Apple apparently has a version of egcs-1.1.2 with an improved version of Motorola's AltiVec support merged in. I still have not seen any offer of these patches to the GCC maintainers (and accompanying assignment to the FSF) for inclusion in the public sources. David ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/