Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org

Tue Nov 17 11:20:34 UTC 2009

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Horst Günther Burkhardt III <
horst at sxemacs.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 11:06 +0000, FreeBSD bugmaster wrote:
> > o power/139154 ppc        Patch for Altivec sysctl
>
> Hasn't this been implemented in the kernel for 8.0 release? :/
>
> -- Horst
>

Altivec itself is implemented.  This patch adds a sysctl for machdep so that
certain software which relies on that sysctl can use it. It's based on
OpenBSD's , and is not in the tree yet.