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

Paul Mackerras paulus@samba.org
Wed Jan 18 21:32:00 GMT 2006


Steve Munroe writes:

> It was suggested that AT_PLATFORM is a better mechanism for supporting a 
> large variety of cpu-types for compiler (micro-architecture) 
> optimizations. And AT_HWCAP should be focused on ISA features and optional 
> execution units.

The kernel changes to make an AT_PLATFORM aux table entry are now
upstream and will be in 2.6.16.  The set of strings is as listed in
your proposal with the addition of "ppc440gp", "ppc5554", and
"ppc8548".

Paul.



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