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Re: [RFC] dl-procinfo and HWCAP_IMPORTANT support for powerpc, revised



On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Steve Munroe wrote:
> > +#define HWCAP_IMPORTANT        (PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC   \
> > +                       | PPC_FEATURE_CELL_BE       \
> > +                       | PPC_FEATURE_BOOKE)
> 
> Remove the booke stuff.  There is no reason to punish people for
> something only embedded people are interested in.  Those freeloaders in
> any case recompile so they can add it to their code.

I don't see the reason for it's removal. While you may have an axe to 
grind against embedded developers, I don't think that has a place here.

Regards,

Tom 


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