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Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update AT_HWCAP2 bits
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:53:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Update AT_HWCAP2 bits
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On Nov 20 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/2017 09:00 PM, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
>> Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho<tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>
>>> This patch will wait for the acceptance of the kernel patch [1] into
>>> Linus' tree.
>> Kernel patch has been merged, so I'm merging the glibc patch too:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5b0e2cb020085efe202123162502e0b551e49a0e
>
> Could we backport this to 2.26? It's essentially a hardware errata
> workaround, so perhaps it qualifies as a bugfix?
Doesn't the _dl_powerpc_cap_flags change mean that this is a (libc
internal) ABI change?
Andreas.
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