Re: Altivec and G4
On fredag 27. juli 2001 22:28, Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com> wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:04:16PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>> > Camm Maguire wrote:
>> >
>> > >Greetings! Anyone using Debian on this platform? Anyone in the
>> > >process of packaging the altivec capable binutils and/or gcc? Anyone
>> > >interested?
>> > >
>> > Tons of people are using this platform. I don't know of anyone using it
>> > for a Beowulf though.
http://www.totalimpact.com
>> > But I'm sure there are users of atlas-using
>> > packages...
>> >
>> > The relevant list is debian-powerpc.
>>
>> I doubt it, as atlas hasn't built for a bit:
>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=blas-1.0:lapack-3.0:lib/Linux_fpu_shared
>bin/Linux_fpu_shared/xsl3blastst -R all -N 10 1
>> 00 10 -M 10 100 10 >>debian/test/xsl3blastst
>> bin/Linux_fpu_shared/xsl3blastst: error while loading shared
>libraries: blas-1.0/libblas.so.2: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at
>0x6ffd3e10 for symbol `scal_' out of range
>>
>>
>
>Yep, I've filed a bug against this. g77 cannot link a shared lib on
>ppc, and f2c isn't available. The reference blas library is needed
>for the atlas lib checks. Probably the easiest is to port f2c to
>powerpc, if you'd like to help. Then I can NMU a blas, with
>maintainers permission, to use it instead of g77 on the powerpc
>platform, as with m68k.
>
>
>
>> All recent binutils are altivec capable. I expect that no one will
>> ever package the AltiVec-capable GCC, as it is exceedingly unreliable.
>>
>
>Thanks for the tip. The binutils are all that is needed. However, I
>checked on voltaire, and the standard assembler there didn't seem to
>understand the altivec assembly code put out by the altivec gcc,
>whereas the altivec assembler did. Am I doing something wrong?
>
>Take care,
>
>> --
>> Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
>> MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
>>
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