Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 03:09:54 +1100
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: "Dugger, Donald D" <donald.d.dugger@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       "Shah, Rajesh" <rajesh.shah@intel.com>, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add VT flag to cpuinfo
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> Good guess.  We discuessed it and decided that `vmx' was the best
> term so I'll rework the patch to use that name.
> 
> BTW, I don't see any reference to `vmx' in the 2.6.14 tree, is
> this a change you recently made to your tree?

Unfortunate choice of TLA, VMX is the name for the vector instruction set
on powerpc (otherwise known as altivec).

Anton
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