[PATCH] powerpc: Enable VMX copy on PPC970 (G5)

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jan 21 21:23:44 AEDT 2016


On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 10:51 +0100, Marc Dietrich wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 21. Januar 2016, 11:25:27 schrieb Michael Ellerman:

> > There's no reason I'm aware of that the VMX copy loop shouldn't work on
> > PPC970. And in fact it seems to boot and generally be happy.
> 
> does the same also hold for Cell? Maybe there are even more optimizations 
> which can be copied from PPC970.

Yeah in theory the PPE has VMX, I'll try it.

cheers



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