Bug#758620: linux-image-3.2.0-4-powerpc64: please enable CONFIG_VSX in the powerpc64 flavours
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 01:23:48PM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> Package: linux
> Version: 3.2.0-4
> Severity: minor
>
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to test some VSX code in the partch.debian.org
> powerpc/powerpc64 porterbox and while VSX support was enabled in the
> compiler, it was not enabled in the kernel. Since it's
> required/recommended to use official kernels in Debian porterboxes, I
> was advised to send a bug report to the kernel package to have VSX
> enabled in the stable (but also the unstable) PowerPC64 kernel as well.
> For that matter, the ppc64el porterbox, pastel.debian.net does have VSX
> enabled, but I would like to test both big and little endian VSX code.
Setting CONFIG_VSX=y on the wheezy kernel triggers an ABI change
affecting almost all symbols, so I think this change is unlikely to
happen. If VSX needs to be activated on a wheezy machine, the bpo kernel
would do it. And this problem will be fixed for jessie as the 3.14
kernel already has CONFIG_VSX=y.
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