[PATCH] raid6: altivec support

Kumar Gala kumar.gala at freescale.com
Tue Jan 18 01:58:17 EST 2005


[snip]

> This makes it compile on PPC, but highlights the difference between
>  'cur_cpu_spec' on ppc32 and ppc64. Why is 'cur_cpu_spec' an array on
>  ppc32? Isn't 'cur' supposed to imply 'current'?

I can only guess to handle an SMP case with two different revs of the 
same processor that might have slightly different errata.

- kumar




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