[PATCH] Add cmov into i386 HWCAP_IMPORTANT

Gwenole Beauchesne gbeauchesne@mandrakesoft.com
Sun Feb 2 08:55:00 GMT 2003


Hi,

>> Note that that should be done in the kernel, not in ld.so.
>
> The kernel folks outright refused to do this.

Are you sure? Jeff Garzik told me "there was kernel patch applied in 2.5 
that checks for CMOV, and reports i586 if it is not present". I also 
made a similar patch for our 2.4 kernels and it works so far.

> The GCC folks refuse to change the meaning of -march=i686.

My opinion is that gcc definition primarily models an i686, an Intel 
PentiumPro, thus with CMOV support. ;-)

Bye,
Gwenole.



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