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

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 12/4/20 4:12 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * 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).

I won't be able to touch this until the new year. I want to handle the
higher priority glibc patches for review.

Please feel free to rewrite, change, and do whatever you want.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.