From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 12:46:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAECD37B401 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:46:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD7843F3F for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:46:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from welchsm@earthlink.net) Received: from ernie.psp.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.78.243]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19O0gk-0000y0-00 for freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:46:18 -0700 Received: from [207.217.78.16] by EarthlinkWAM via HTTP; Thu Jun 05 12:46:17 PDT 2003 Message-ID: <3331557.1054842377927.JavaMail.nobody@ernie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:46:11 -0500 (GMT) From: Sean Welch To: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Earthlink Web Access Mail version 3.0 Subject: Altivec use on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 19:46:19 -0000 Any chance the library mentioned on the site below could be used/adapted? http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6413 Sean From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 03:33:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E34A37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 03:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dommail.onthenet.com.au (dommail.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.70.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5043A43F75 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 03:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (CPE-203-45-236-129.qld.bigpond.net.au [203.45.236.129]) by dommail.onthenet.com.au (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.4-GA) with ESMTP id AAL19111 (AUTH peterg@ptree32.com.au); Fri, 6 Jun 2003 20:33:49 +1000 (EST) Sender: grehan@dommail.onthenet.com.au Message-ID: <3EE06E73.6B9F9F33@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 20:35:31 +1000 From: Peter Grehan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org References: <3331557.1054842377927.JavaMail.nobody@ernie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Altivec use on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:33:56 -0000 > Any chance the library mentioned on the site below could be > used/adapted? Possibly, but it would depend on the license (I haven't looked). NetBSD can use the Altivec unit for page-zeroing. later, Peter.