Alpha hwcaps

Jeff Bailey jbailey@nisa.net
Thu Sep 19 08:11:00 GMT 2002


On # Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:59:09 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

>|> 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.

If you guys do this, it would be nice to extend it to ix86 too, so
that the Hurd can use this as well.

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