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Re: Alpha hwcaps
- From: Jeff Bailey <jbailey at nisa dot net>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 08:10:56 -0700
- Subject: Re: Alpha hwcaps
On # Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:59:09 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>|> 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.
If you guys do this, it would be nice to extend it to ix86 too, so
that the Hurd can use this as well.
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