Alpha hwcaps

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Fri Sep 20 22:33:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:59:09PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.

For alpha, it's one very quick instruction -- amask.


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