[RFC] dl-procinfo and HWCAP_IMPORTANT support for powerpc, revised

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org
Sat Jan 14 21:31:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 14:21 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Steve Munroe wrote:
> > +#define HWCAP_IMPORTANT        (PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC   \
> > +                       | PPC_FEATURE_CELL_BE       \
> > +                       | PPC_FEATURE_BOOKE)
> 
> Remove the booke stuff.  There is no reason to punish people for
> something only embedded people are interested in.  Those freeloaders in
> any case recompile so they can add it to their code.

Not all users of booke CPUs users are freeloaders ;-) I don't like just
removing it from the mask for the sake of it...

Ben.




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