Re: Bug#680096: ATLAS on PowerPC

2012-07-04 Thread Sébastien Villemot
brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net 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

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

Re: Bug#680096: ATLAS on PowerPC

2012-07-04 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca 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.