[patch 3/3] cell: prevent alignment interrupt on local store

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 08:33 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 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.

-mcpu=cell can possibly generate things that won't run on 970 and 74xx.
There are some new altivec instructions among others...

Ben.