[PATCH] hp-timing for ppc32/64
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh@kernel.crashing.org
Mon Nov 14 22:19:00 GMT 2005
> AT_HWCAP is but dl_hwcap is not. The loader has to complete relocating
> itself before it can call the functions the set up dl_hwcap etc
> (dl_sysdep_start). Looking at the code it seems the HP_TIMING_NOW() is
> being used very early in rtld.c (dl_start and dl_start_final), as far as I
> can tell dl_hwcap is not available until the middle of dl_start_final(),
> well after HP_TIMING needs to be functional.
Can't you just parse the AT_ table yourself then ?
Ben.
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