Possibly you might be right. If so, I suspect it'll just continue to
languish in Debian
I will point out that this isn't quite your typical PowerPC core, and quite
a bit was hacked out to implement the Signal Processing Engine by Freescale
when it was created. I will also note that while the core
On 2018-07-01 08:36 AM, Stuart Young wrote:
> PowerPC variants with the Signal Processing Engine do not support
> Altivec instructions, as the SPE instruction set uses the same
> instruction codes as the Altivec set available in most PowerPC
> cores. Note that this is not related to the "Synergisti
Further info on this:
The original patch in Debian is at
https://sources.debian.org/src/mesa/18.1.2-1/debian/patches/07_gallium-fix-build-failure-on-powerpcspe.diff/
(URL will change based on version of Mesa in Debian - URL is current when I
sent this email).
PowerPCSPE port page in Debian which
PowerPC variants with the Signal Processing Engine do not support
Altivec instructions, as the SPE instruction set uses the same
instruction codes as the Altivec set available in most PowerPC
cores. Note that this is not related to the "Synergistic Processing
Element" units on IBM Cell microprocess
