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Re: Alpha hwcaps
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Falk Hueffner <falk dot hueffner at student dot uni-tuebingen dot de>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:59:09 +0200
- Subject: Re: Alpha hwcaps
- References: <87y99yrqcg.fsf@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
|> Another question is where the detection of the actual hardware
|> capabilities ought to be located; I couldn't find it in the source
|> e. g. for ix86...
For ix86 it is done in the kernel, see ELF_HWCAP in <asm/elf.h>. But
there is no reason not to do it in userspace if at all possible.
Andreas.
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