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Re: Implicit altivec vs. linux kernel build
> Yes, but as I wrote, that prevents building the RAID6 code which
> contains some selected altivec bits and cause gas to not get passed the
> proper option so we can have instructions like "dssall" in the low level
> assembly files.
>
> The later can probably be worked around by adding the proper
> Wa,-mcpu=any I suppose ... The RAID6 code is a bit more annoying since
> currently, it's not a separate file.
Oh, and there are gcc version that will refuse -mcpu=power4 -maltivec so
I can't even use -mcpu=power4 for the whole kernel and -maltivec just
for the file containing the raid6 code
Ben.