I have had libfreevec (clibrary replacement) installed on my g4 powerbook for several years with no problems, upgrading in place from etch to lenny to squeeze. but I have not tried to build apps against it.
gcc has very good auto-vectoring since 4.3 or 4.4 so you don't need to hand code. Some limited tests here show 2-3 times speedups. nevertheless the rebuild process is so painful (especially by my lonesome) for debian and so painless for netBSD that I am planning a ground up build of the latter as soon as 6.0 comes out (they are a bit slower in the compiler updates). Brian 2011/4/2 Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> > (Please, keep me CC'ed, as I am not currently subscribed to -powerpc) > > Hi there. > > As some people may not consider yaboot to be a bootloader for the long term > (well, depending on your views, not even for the short term), I took some > time to distill, experiment, pull my hair, become frustrated, and write a > moderately introductory post on getting GRUB 2 on my iBook G4. > > The post is here: > > http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog/posts/running_grub2_on_powerpc_macs/ > > Please let me know if you find this useful. > > BTW, I am just playing with getting Freevec on my computer (well, it should > be faster, since Altivec is essentially not used in current Linux > distributions) and I will keep those that want posted (if you want) when I > have something to show. > > Well, right now, I have a very crufty solution that works for me, but that > I > am ashamed to publish and ruin the rest of reputation that I have. :-) > > Finally, a stupid question: is there anybody out there that knows if the > current Iceweasel in experimental (4.0) has any kind of JIT for PowerPC? I > mean, like TenFourFox (http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/)? > > If not, their patches are available > (http://tenfourfox.googlecode.com/files/TenFourFox-changesets-20110323.zip > ). > And the developer's blog is very instructive ( > http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/). > > (Yes, I know that I could just ask Mike Hommey, but let's see if anybody > here has already tried this). > > Feedback is welcome. > > > Regards, > > -- > Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA > http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de > DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110403014832.ga7...@ime.usp.br > >
