Hi, simple runtime altivec detection from userspace causes an oops on the `vand` instruction. kernel was built *without* CONFIG_ALTIVEC. i think kernel should return a SIGILL instead of an oops ;-) Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#65] NIP: C0008B84 LR: C0007F2C SP: CF373F20 REGS: cf373e70 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted MSR: 00009032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11 DAR: 00000088, DSISR: 40000000 TASK = c81e04f0[12983] 'altivec' THREAD: cf372000Last syscall: 174 GPR00: C0007F2C CF373F20 C81E04F0 00000004 00000004 00030001 00000000 0FEE08D0 GPR08: 0000F932 C0007F2C 00009032 C0350000 081E0788 00000000 00000000 100A37D8 GPR16: 100A0000 00000000 100A0000 00000000 10070000 100A37C8 100AEF08 00000000 GPR24: 100A1108 00000000 100A59A8 3002AEF8 3002BB80 3002AE60 0FFEA6FC 00000004 Call trace: [c0007f2c] processor       : 0 cpu             : 7450 clock           : 700MHz revision        : 2.1 (pvr 8000 0201) bogomips        : 696.32 machine         : PowerMac4,4 motherboard     : PowerMac4,4 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as     : 80 (eMac) pmac flags      : 00000001 L2 cache        : 256K unified memory          : 384MB pmac-generation : NewWorld -- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke