Re: [PATCH v2] ld.so.8: Update "Hardware capabilities" section for glibc 2.31.

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>]

* Carlos O'Donell:

> On 6/10/20 2:00 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hi Carlos,
>> 
>> What's the status of this patch?
>
> I'm currently rewriting the language of the section to split apart the
> AT_PLATFORM and AT_HWCAP parts.
>
> They each behave differently. AT_PLATFORM is a non-nested singular platform
> directory that is searched with no fallback, and that needs to clarified
> and called out. While AT_HWCAP is drastically different in behaviour.
>
> When done we'll have two lists, and two explanations for the search paths
> and their orders.
>
> I'm doing this as part of the upstream review of this infrasturcture
> because we're going to change the behaviour in an upcoming release. With
> the changes in place we'll have a good place to say "... and now it's different."
>
> In summary: Still working on it. Expect v3.

Carlos, what's the status here?  I need to write an update for
glibc-hwcaps, and this likely conflicts with your edits (at least
semantically).

Thanks,
Florian
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