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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