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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:55:52 +0000
From: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: Runtime Altivec detection
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> There's a much better way. The kernel passes down CPU features
> bits down to userland via ELF AUX tables.

Any pointers where I can find information about that?

/ magnus

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