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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] MIPS: elf_hwcap: Export userspace ASEs
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Paul Burton wrote:

> > A Golang developer reported MIPS hwcap isn't reflecting instructions
> > that the processor actually supported so programs can't apply optimized
> > code at runtime.
> > 
> > Thus we export the ASEs that can be used in userspace programs.
> 
> Applied to mips-fixes.

 This makes a part of the user ABI, so I would advise discussing this with 
libc folks.  Also you probably want to report microMIPS support too.

  Maciej