Runtime Altivec detection

Nathan Ingersoll ningerso at ruralcenter.org
Sat Mar 8 04:52:02 EST 2003


On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:41:05PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> There's a much better way. The kernel passes down CPU features
> bits down to userland via ELF AUX tables.

Do you know of any reference code for accessing that information?

Thanks,
Nathan

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