Okay.  I guess my real question then is should this be being passed  
when I have commented out Altivec support in the kernel  
configuration?  I thought it might be a bug in the makefile or  
something.

Kjell


On 2 Jan 2006, at 11:31, Michael wrote:

>> When the kernel is compiling, "-Wa,-maltivec" is always among the C
>> flags.  What does that comma mean?  Is it just for warnings or is it
>> actually including Altivec support?
>
> This means that '-maltivec' is passed to the assembler as command line
> option.