From: Nathan Ingersoll <ningerso@ruralcenter•org>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Runtime Altivec detection
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:35:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030307173531.GA6052@ruralcenter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E68D5BF.1050906@embeddededge.com>
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:24:15PM -0500, Dan Malek wrote:
>
> For some time now the Linux kernel has provided support for emulating
> the 'mfspr rd, PVR' instruction in user space. Do this once, get the
> PVR and determine the processor type.
>
> You can also just read /proc/cpuinfo and search for the 'cpu :' line.
> It will indicate the processor type and if altivec is supported.
>
> There are probably other ways as well....
Thanks for the info Dan, I'll check into doing it this way. I am still
curious about some of my other questions, such as recovering from a
SIGILL caused by an actual illegal instruction. Anyone willing to chime
in on that?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-07 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-07 16:47 Runtime Altivec detection Nathan Ingersoll
2003-03-07 17:24 ` Dan Malek
2003-03-07 17:35 ` Nathan Ingersoll [this message]
2003-03-07 17:37 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-03-07 17:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-07 17:52 ` Nathan Ingersoll
2003-03-07 18:55 ` Magnus Damm
2003-03-07 18:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-07 18:18 ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-03-07 18:54 ` Magnus Damm
2003-03-07 18:08 ` Nathan Ingersoll
2003-03-07 19:44 ` Magnus Damm
2003-03-07 19:23 ` Nathan Ingersoll
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-08 2:02 Bill Fink
2003-03-08 2:11 ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-03-08 8:04 ` Bill Fink
2003-03-08 18:21 ` Nathan Ingersoll
2003-03-09 4:01 Albert Cahalan
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