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Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 20:35:31 +1000
From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Altivec use on FreeBSD?
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> Any chance the library mentioned on the site below could be
> used/adapted?

 Possibly, but it would depend on the license (I haven't looked).

 NetBSD can use the Altivec unit for page-zeroing.

later,

Peter.