[PATCH 0/9] powerpc: Add kernel support for POWER7 VSX.

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Wed Jun 25 14:07:17 EST 2008


The following set of patches adds Vector Scalar Extentions (VSX)
support for POWER7.  Includes context switch, ptrace and signals support.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
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Paulus: please consider for your 2.6.27 tree.

Updates this post....
- White space change in start_thread thanks to Paulus
- thread_struct change/cleanup suggested thanks to Paulus. This
  also resulted in changing TS_FPRSPACING to TS_FPRWIDTH
- pointer to array fix, thanks to Kumar
- indexing macro fix in ptrace32 thanks to Kumar
- moved SAVE/REST_32FPVSRS to where they are used in fpu.S suggested by Kumar

This time for sure!



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