[Cbe-oss-dev] [patch 3/3] cell: prevent alignment interrupt on local store

[Olaf Hering]

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.