On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:57:07PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > Seems there is. The Cypress is a v7 CPU, but with a sun4m MMU. So it's > sort of inbetween what is commonly accepted as a sun4c and a sun4m. [...] > Yes. The solution is in the HWCAP's. The kernel sets the Elf flags > properly, so the code just needs to check them. If HWCAP_SPARC_MULDIV is > set, then you can use hardware muldiv functions. Otherwise, it needs the > software version. > > What I don't understand is why xfree86 is trying to handle this itself. > Glibc has these functions already, so it seems the code is a waste. This > is definitely a bug in xfree86. I'm working on a patch right now. Well, probably because XFree86 tries to be insanely portable, and can't rely on the GNU extensions to the C library. -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to atheism was Debian GNU/Linux | reading the Bible cover to cover. branden@debian.org | Twice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- J. Michael Straczynski
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