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Re: ppc64 vDSO in mainline
- From: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel dot crashing dot org>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:55:16 -0600
- Subject: Re: ppc64 vDSO in mainline
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote on 03/29/2005 10:07:30 AM:
> BTW, there is already a mechanism for processor optimized routines,
> you just do another glibc build targetting that particular CPU
> and install into /lib*/<platform>/ instead of /lib*/, on IA-32
> e.g. /lib/i{386,486,586,686,686/sse2} etc.
>
That is fine for hackers, but our customer do (will) not build/install
their own glibc. Also the distro's will not build and ship that many
versions of the libraries. The number of variations of PPC32 hardware is
near infinite ;-)
Steven J. Munroe
Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center