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Re: [RFC] dl-procinfo and HWCAP_IMPORTANT support for powerpc
- From: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- 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 09:45:41 -0600
- Subject: Re: [RFC] dl-procinfo and HWCAP_IMPORTANT support for powerpc
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote on 12/15/2005
09:38:57 PM:
>
> > 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
>
Before you go off and implement AT_PLATFORM we should discuss what exactly
the kernel is going to return? What strings for which platform/chip?
Steven J. Munroe
Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center