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Re: [RFC] dl-procinfo and HWCAP_IMPORTANT support for powerpc
- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- To: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:38:57 +1100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] dl-procinfo and HWCAP_IMPORTANT support for powerpc
- References: <OF2DDBFC6F.18150C3F-ON862570D8.0066540D-862570D8.00697BA5@us.ibm.com>
> Well the base mechanism can work with either (AT_HWCAP or AT_PLATFORM).
> But for powerpc, AT_PLATFORM is not included in the Aux vector. So until
> the powerpc kernel supports AT_PLATFORM there is not much point.
I didn't know about AT_PLATFORM, I'll look into adding that to the
kernel, but I will be post 2.6.15
Ben.