Re: Altivec disabled?

Subject: Re: Altivec disabled?
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 15:35:21 MDT

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On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:40:38PM -0700, Brent Ware wrote:
>
> For some time now, when I start MOL, I see the following message:
>
> ********* of_quiesce *********
> AltiVec is disabled
> AltiVec is disabled
>
>
> but Altivec is enabled in my molrc. Does this mean that MOL isn't
> using Altivec, and if not, how can I convince it too.
>
> Currently I'm running 0.9.60 (rsync) on 2.4.6, but I saw this message
> for at least the last couple of kernels and MOL versions. So it
> works, but I'm curious.
>

Yes - AltiVec is disabled. This is probably due to a bug
I've not yet fixed (MOL wrongly thinks AltiVec is not present
due to an overflow).

Regards,

/Samuel

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