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Re: [PATCH] Alpha hwcaps
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> > this add support for Alpha hwcaps. Since the scheme of orthogonal
> > hwcap bits simply doesn't fit with Alpha, which has plain linear
> > feature inclusion, I had to replace the whole _dl_important_hwcaps.
> > Obviously, as I've done it is not the best solution, how can I achieve
> > this in a nicer way?
> >
> > --- sysdeps/generic/dl-sysdep.c.orig 2004-02-29 02:52:07.000000000 +0100
> > +++ sysdeps/generic/dl-sysdep.c 2004-02-29 03:25:43.000000000 +0100
>
> You never add architecture support to a file in sysdeps/generic.
> Instead create you own file in sysdeps/alpha/
The problem is that I don't want to replace everything in dl-sysdep.c,
but just _dl_important_hwcaps. How can I do that?
--
Falk