Alpha hwcaps

Thu Sep 19 07:59:00 GMT 2002

Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

|> Another question is where the detection of the actual hardware
|> capabilities ought to be located; I couldn't find it in the source
|> e. g. for ix86...

For ix86 it is done in the kernel, see ELF_HWCAP in <asm/elf.h>.  But
there is no reason not to do it in userspace if at all possible.

Andreas.

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