> 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.