[PATCH] powerpc: Add support for VRSAVE

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Fri Sep 2 23:17:59 UTC 2022


On 2/9/2022 2:27 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 02.09.22 06:22, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> On 02.09.22 04:22, Chris Johns wrote:
>>> On 1/9/2022 6:26 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>> The VRSAVE feature of the Altivec unit can be used to reduce the amount of
>>>> Altivec registers which need to be saved/restored during interrupt processing
>>>> and context switches.
>>> Which BSPs and hardware has this been tested on?
>>
>> The e6500 QoIQ BSPs.
> 
> I mean QorIQ. We have this code since 2020 in production code. I just forgot to
> integrate it.

I would like to have this tested on some of the older MVME boards. Do you still
have the mvme5500 (I think)? I can look at testing in an mvme2703 this week.

Chris


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