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diff --git a/open_issues/libc_variant_selection.mdwn b/open_issues/libc_variant_selection.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 71370a43..00000000 --- a/open_issues/libc_variant_selection.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,57 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2013 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!tag open_issue_glibc open_issue_porting]] - -There is a [[!FF_project 274]][[!tag bounty]] on this task. - -There are now specialized variants of Debian's libc package, libc0.3-i686 and -libc0.3-xen. - - -On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:22:46AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: -> Thomas Schwinge, le Thu 07 Oct 2010 10:11:07 +0200, a écrit : -> > Also, this text says ``will be selected instead when running under Xen'' -> > -- is this meant to be automatically done? -> -> It's supposed to be, we need to add support for it. -> -> > If so, then it didn't work. -> -> Yes, you need to copy it by hand. Same for libc0.3-i686, we just need to -> steal the cpuid code from the kfreebsd port of glibc. - - -# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-06-30 - - <pinotree> other than that, the hwcap system is not working for us yet, - right? - <youpi> no but we'd like to use e.g. cpuid for that - <youpi> like kfreebsd does - <pinotree> do they use cpuid for that? - <pinotree> i kind of lost myself in glibc's loading internals, trying to - find out where the hwcap bits come from - <youpi> on linux it comes from the kernel - <youpi> on kfreebsd aiui they use cpuid to figure it out from the process - itself - <pinotree> do you have any pointer to the kfreebsd way? iirc i had a look - in their sysdeps, but found nothing related to that - <youpi> it's in local-sysdeps.diff aiui - <youpi> +dl_platform_kfreebsd_i386_init - <youpi> which fills dl_hwcap - <youpi> called at _dl_sysdep_start - <pinotree> interesting - - ---- - -Having working CPUID code inside [[glibc]] is also a prerequisite for proper -[[IFUNC]] support. |