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

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Jan 22 19:37:13 AEDT 2016


On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 02:08 -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:25:27AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> But is it faster?

Well Anton wrote it, so of course it is. ;)

Will try and get some numbers.

cheers



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