[RFC] dl-procinfo and HWCAP_IMPORTANT support for powerpc

Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de
Thu Dec 15 12:36:00 GMT 2005


> We have made a deliberate decision not to identify older processor
> generations (POWER3, G4). They are no longer in production and/or are
> adequately covered by the current glibc implementation. They will continue
> to be supported by current base/default implementation (as defined by gcc
> options -mcpu=powerpc for 32-bit and -mcpu=powerpc64 for 64-bit).

That's not true.  G4, G3 and even G2-based microarchitectures are still
in production at motorola.  Not to mention things like the 8xx.



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