ppc64 vDSO in mainline

[Steve Munroe]

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote on 03/29/2005 10:07:30 AM:
> BTW, there is already a mechanism for processor optimized routines,
> you just do another glibc build targetting that particular CPU
> and install into /lib*/<platform>/ instead of /lib*/, on IA-32
> e.g. /lib/i{386,486,586,686,686/sse2} etc.
> 

That is fine for hackers, but our customer do (will) not build/install 
their own glibc. Also the distro's will not build and ship that many 
versions of the libraries. The number of variations of PPC32 hardware is 
near infinite ;-)

Steven J. Munroe
Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center