[RFC] dl-procinfo and HWCAP_IMPORTANT support for powerpc

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Thu Dec 15 15:22:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:00:27AM -0600, Steve Munroe wrote:
> If you are vitally interested in supporting G2, G3, G4 then you will need 
> to:
> 
> 1) Negotiate with Paul Mackerras to get bits allocated in AT_HWCAP from 
> the kernel.

I'm not sure I understand why most of this is in AT_HWCAP.  AltiVec/VMX
is a hardware capability.  "Is a G4" is not a hardware capability,
it's a platform - AT_PLATFORM, set in the Linux kernel from ELF_PLATFORM.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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