Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [PATCH] Add VT flag to cpuinfo | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:45:16 -0800 | From | "Dugger, Donald D" <> |
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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.
-- Don Dugger "Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale Donald.D.Dugger@intel.com Ph: (303)440-1368
>-----Original Message----- >From: Anton Blanchard [mailto:anton@samba.org] >Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:10 AM >To: Dugger, Donald D >Cc: Andi Kleen; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Shah, Rajesh; >akpm@osdl.org >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 > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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