> > However, the question I have is, does anyone care? I cannot > > find a single addressable PA-RISC tech document on HP's website. They
Yeah, they broke it (again) recently. Someone is looking into it... There are some docs linked from http://www.parisc-linux.org/documentation/ > > are switching to the Itanium for the future, and I am unaware of legions > > of people using PA-RISC machines (though I've had a couple write in for > > help). So, does it make sense to spend a lot of time on this arch, given > > that it appears to be a dead end? well, we do have ~1200 registered parisc-linux users :) > > Obviously, ATLAS can be installed on the machines, so the question is not > > one > > of whether it's possible, but whether it is worth time to make it easy, > > create defaults, look for speedups, etc . . . right. if someone is interested, then go for it.... but i don't think it's high priority on anybody's list at the moment. > > Maybe someone wants to point me at the techdoc that addresses these > > extensions, > > and while you are at it, docs that describe everything else, since I can't > > find it? try the doc link above; try "parisc2.0.pdf". The bits you want are on page 6-11 (for prefetch) randolph -- Randolph Chung Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports http://www.tausq.org/
