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From: Dan Malek <dan@mvista•com>
To: Holger Bettag <hobold@Informatik•Uni-Bremen.DE>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: recent fixes in devel tree
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:25:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39C382DF.772F2B99@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8xk8cch9i7.fsf@s63.informatik.uni-bremen.de


Holger Bettag wrote:

> P.S.: BTW, is there a general consensus wether or not AltiVec
>       enhancements in the kernel would be a good thing.....


What kind of enhancements?  I do a fair amount of audio/video
processing on my G4 with the current gcc/Altivec tools.  I found only
one minor bug in the exception handler that I fixed a while back.

We have been discussing some of the vector load/store/touch as both
enhancements to the kernel and glibc.  It is a little more challenging
in the kernel because we would have to then keep some of the vector
context around for the kernel, but in a very constrained case we could
probably get some speed ups with that.


	-- Dan

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-09-16 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-09-16  5:04 recent fixes in devel tree Paul Mackerras
2000-09-16 11:16 ` Holger Bettag
2000-09-16 14:25   ` Dan Malek [this message]
2000-09-17 16:01     ` Holger Bettag
2000-09-19  3:06       ` Dan Malek
     [not found] <20000916152035.A517@olis.north.de>
2000-09-16 18:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-09-16 21:51   ` Claus Enneper

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