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Re: [PATCH] Add Aarch64 SVE defines
- From: Alan Hayward <Alan dot Hayward at arm dot com>
- To: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs dot Nagy at arm dot com>
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- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:38:43 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Aarch64 SVE defines
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> On 11 Jan 2018, at 17:37, Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/12/17 14:59, Alan Hayward wrote:
>> This patch adds Aarch64 SVE specific defines to glibc.
> ...
>>
>> 2017-12-08 Alan Hayward <alan.hayward@arm.com>
>>
>> * elf/elf.h: Add NT_ARM_SVE.
>> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/bits/hwcap.h: Add HWCAP_SVE.
>
> i plan to apply the elf.h part of this patch
> and then do the hwcap.h update separately.
>
Thanks for that!
I took a look at the dl-procinfo.c and it looked simple enough, but haven’t had
the time test to write the patch. Also, I wasn’t sure the best way to test the code
(Didn’t seem anything relevant in the test suite and I’m not sure how to use libc
to access the changes directly).
Alan.