RE: [PATCH] Add VT flag to cpuinfo

[Dugger, Donald D]

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.

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Don Dugger
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Anton Blanchard [mailto:anton@xxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:10 AM
>To: Dugger, Donald D
>Cc: Andi Kleen; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Shah, Rajesh; 
>akpm@xxxxxxxx
>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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