altivec instructions

Jim Terman terman at ddi.com
Tue Jan 25 05:52:59 EST 2000


We are trying to run a program that contains altivec instructions on a G4,
but the process keeps crashing (gdb will actually cause a kernal panic).
It looks like a bit in the MSR needs to be set.  What would be the best
way to modify the kernel to let this happen?

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