Return-Path: From: Siarhei Siamashka To: ext Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] sbc: powerpc altivec optimizations for 4 subbands encoding Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:20:10 +0200 Cc: "linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org" References: <200903162159.49487.siarhei.siamashka@nokia.com> <1237011433.24751.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200903230851.53472.siarhei.siamashka@nokia.com> In-Reply-To: <200903230851.53472.siarhei.siamashka@nokia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200903230920.10134.siarhei.siamashka@nokia.com> List-ID: On Monday 23 March 2009 08:51:53 Siamashka Siarhei (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: [...] > For it to be ready to be appied, the following still needs to be done in my > opinion: > 1. Add '/proc/self/auxv' based altivec instructions support detection at > runtime, this should work for all linux systems. > way the same binary will be usable on which are conservative about the > debian Sorry for this unfinished gibberish typing that slipped in. Translating into a "human" language: most distributions like debian use the lowest common denominator target cpu options for binary packages, runtime altivec detection will make sbc altivec optimizations work fine there without any extra hassle :) -- Best regards, Siarhei Siamashka