G4 upgrade cards and oldworld mac's, BootX

Tue Jun 26 05:53:14 EST 2001

At 10:09 AM +0200 6/25/01, Luc Knoepfli wrote:

>Second question.
>Under MacOS the AltiVec unit has to be enabled by software (INIT), is
>this done by the kernel under Linux?

Just compile the kernel with AltiVec support turned on.

Then, you're going to need AltiVec-using software, which there isn't
very much of on Linux...

   Tim Seufert

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