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Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update AT_HWCAP2 bits
On Nov 20 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.
It does both, so you would have to split that off.
Andreas.
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