Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] cell: prevent alignment interrupt on local store

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:33:21 +0200

On Thu, Apr 12, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> Gets altivec and stops working on POWER5 ? no deal :-)

If there is a significant performance gain (not only 9%) and if
-mcpu=$cell does not generate instructions that wont work on other
altivec capable cpus and if rpm gets a target ppcaltivec.rpm (or
similar), as separate binary tree can be done.