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Subject: RE: [PATCH] Add VT flag to cpuinfo
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:45:16 -0800
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Thread-Topic: [PATCH] Add VT flag to cpuinfo
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From: "Dugger, Donald D" <donald.d.dugger@intel.com>
To: "Anton Blanchard" <anton@samba.org>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "Shah, Rajesh" <rajesh.shah@intel.com>, <akpm@osdl.org>
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Well, I really don't see a conflict here, TLA's for x86
architectures are orthogonal to PowerPC and vice versa
so this shouldn't cause any confusion.

--
Don Dugger
"Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale
Donald.D.Dugger@intel.com
Ph: (303)440-1368 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Anton Blanchard [mailto:anton@samba.org] 
>Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:10 AM
>To: Dugger, Donald D
>Cc: Andi Kleen; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Shah, Rajesh; 
>akpm@osdl.org
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add VT flag to cpuinfo
>
> 
>> 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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