Subject: Re: mol-0.9.41
From: Robert Neugebauer (rneugeba@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 16:07:51 MST
My kernel is Paul's, rsync'd from linuxcare.com.au. This was a 2.2.14
kernel which did not export the symbol. Once I upgraded to 2.2.15pre7
everything was fine.
A question then, does MOL actually utilize the Altivec instructions? Or at
least make them available to MacOS programs?
Bob
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Samuel Rydh wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Robert Neugebauer wrote:
> > giveup_altivec is not defined in /proc/ksyms. Also, no sym: [n] ...
> > appeared in the messages output to the console when MOL starts up. Is
> > there another logfile that you are referring to?
> >
> Aha. From where did you get your kernel? I've verified that
> both Ben's and Paul's 2.2.15 kernels does export this symbol.
> This is apparently not done in the 2.2.14 kernel.
>
> I'd prefere to keep binary compatibility over as a wide range
> of kernels as possible (since many users are uncomfortable with
> compiling and have broken installations).
>
> If the problem is in the 2.2.14 kernel only, then I'll simply add
> a compile flag which discards the compatibility code that errs
> in this case.
>
> Regards,
>
> /Samuel
>
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