Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update AT_HWCAP2 bits

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 11/20/2017 04:53 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Nov 20 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On 11/17/2017 09:00 PM, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
> > > Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho<tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>  writes:
> > >
> > > > This patch will wait for the acceptance of the kernel patch [1] into
> > > > Linus' tree.
> > > Kernel patch has been merged, so I'm merging the glibc patch too:
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5b0e2cb020085efe202123162502e0b551e49a0e
> >
> > Could we backport this to 2.26?  It's essentially a hardware errata
> > workaround, so perhaps it qualifies as a bugfix?
>
> Doesn't the _dl_powerpc_cap_flags change mean that this is a (libc
> internal) ABI change?

Oops.  I probably replied to the wrong patch then.  I meant the related 
patch which adds the flag to an installed header.

Thanks,
Florian