Bug#229251: libc6.1: request ev67 specific build

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:49:33PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:

> Beginning with versions 2.6.2 and 2.4.25, the kernel will emit
> AT_PLATFORM data for ev56, ev6, ev67.  This would allow optional
> system-specific libraries in /lib/$platform/ as for other targets.
> 
> EV67 is most interesting because libc has special memcpy/memset
> routines that do prefetching and cache manipulation, as well as
> special str* routines that use new bit scanning instructions.
> 
> It would be nice, therefore, to have a libc6.1-ev67 package.

Richard, do we need your recent patches to glibc to make this worthwhile?
Our snapshot is from September or so.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey