From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:16:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080707161613.GF9594@localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080707061811.19989154246@magilla.localdomain>
Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Well, we use strings to represent the platforms already (ie, the actual
> > CPU microarchitecture). Fitting those into bits would be annoying, it
>
> Then use dsocaps.
>
> > makes sense to have AT_BASE_PLATFORM to be the "base" variant of
> > AT_PLATFORM.
>
> I understand why you think so. But let's not be too abstract. The
> purpose of the addition is to drive ld.so's selection of libraries, yes?
That is one purpose. But there are others (JVMs, performance tools).
dsocaps seems to be an ld.so-specific thing... or am I missing how a
"third-party" program would use it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-07 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-03 23:41 [PATCH 1/2] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string Nathan Lynch
2008-07-04 2:19 ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-07 5:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-07 6:18 ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-07 6:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-07 6:35 ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-07 6:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-07 7:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-07-07 9:31 ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-07 10:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-07-07 22:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-08 0:31 ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-08 0:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-08 18:35 ` Steven Munroe
2008-07-07 16:16 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2008-07-07 22:17 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-07 23:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-04 2:35 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-07-07 15:55 ` Nathan Lynch
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2008-07-07 15:14 Steven Munroe
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