I’m still waiting for a new HD for my tibook and I’m still half productive (I’m at home 1/3 of my time and I can effectively use the pegII, that genesi gave me (than you so much, I would be dead without it) for developing altivec related code, just there. Hopefully I’ll have my nice laptop back the next month (looks like the HD I ordered is more or less a chimera…).
Here there are some of my plan for the next months about gentoo/ppc:
- Get gcc-4 and test the autovectorization features and hopefully provide a new and sane set of cflags to use it safely
- Update the rest of the toolchain (glibc 2.3.5 was recently released and hopefully will be in a good shape soon)
- Test some laptop related kernel patches that are pending for inclusion in the mainline but looks quite interesting
- Try to altivectorize snow in order to have it working at a decent speed here
Probably something else could happen but I think that I already put too much in the list.