Hello! On 8/24/21 10:59 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > With the removal of the libc6-xen package in glibc 2.32, the only > package still using the hwcap infrastructure is libc6.1-alphaev67. The > hwcap infrastructure consists in upstream support for looking for > libraries in the hwcap directories, plus Debian specific patches to > support disabling hwcap with the /etc/ld.so.nohwcap, plus some mechanism > in the maintainer scripts to disable hwcap support until all libc6 > packages are configured. > > The various optimized packages have been replaced with time by other > mechanisms such as indirect function support (IFUNC), or runtime atomic > selection in GCC (-moutline-atomics).
Isn't this type of architecture optimization support currently seeing a revival due to many distributions looking into providing optimized x86_64 variants? [1] Adrian > [1] > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-2021-x86_64-Level -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
