Re: x86 building altivec for raid ?

[J.A. Magallon]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:26:45 +1100, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sunday November 13, jamagallon@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > Kernel is 2.6.14-mm2.
> > This is an x86 box, why does it compile raid6altivec*.c ? I suppose it
> > does not generate any code, because of some #ifdef magic, but why does
> > it build them anyways ? Looks a bit strange.
> 
> It's probably just easier that way.
> I guess you could do the following, but I'm not sure that it is really
> worth it.
> 
> +raid6-$(CONFIG_X86) :=  raid6mmx.o raid6sse1.o
> +raid6-$(CONFIG_X86_64) := raid6sse2.o

plain x86 can also do some sse2 ;) (x2, not x4)
As X86_64 also defines plain X86, this could be just

> +raid6-$(CONFIG_X86) :=  raid6mmx.o raid6sse1.o raid6sse2.o

And perhaps IA64 will need this also ?
Thanks, anyways.
I will send it to Andrew, to see if it goes in.

by

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