Re: Bug#680096: ATLAS on PowerPC

2012-07-04 Thread Sébastien Villemot
"Lennart Sorensen" writes: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 09:39:37PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >> My understanding is that POWER3 does not have Altivec, so it may >> therefore be the best option. > > Unless of course it has other instructions that the G4 doesn't have. Looking again at Atlas bu

Re: Bug#680096: ATLAS on PowerPC

2012-07-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 09:39:37PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > But still POWER3 is supported by the 32-bit powerpc port: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch02s01.html.en#id522279 Debian powerpc is 32bit, but with 64bit kernel available. Debian 64bit powerpc is a new proj

Re: Bug#680096: ATLAS on PowerPC

2012-07-04 Thread Sébastien Villemot
"brian m. carlson" writes: > POWER3 is 64-bit. But still POWER3 is supported by the 32-bit powerpc port: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch02s01.html.en#id522279 > PPCG4 is 32-bit, but it requires the use of Altivec > instructions, which G3 processors do not have. So the answe