Re: Policy proposal: Cpu extension code, update-ldsoconf

2001-06-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Camm Maguire wrote: 2) This library should be placed in a designated subdir of /usr/lib specialized for code requiring the cpu extension in question. All such directories should be agreed on and sanctioned by the policy committee. As a suggestion, the directory might be named after the

Re: Policy proposal: Cpu extension code, update-ldsoconf

2001-06-26 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Michel LESPINASSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 03:16:27PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > > Greetings! This is hardly formal, but it seems as though we don't > > have a policy on this yet, and a number of packages are appearing > > (e.g. atlas, gmp2) which can be

Re: Policy proposal: Cpu extension code, update-ldsoconf

2001-06-25 Thread Michel LESPINASSE
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 03:16:27PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! This is hardly formal, but it seems as though we don't > have a policy on this yet, and a number of packages are appearing > (e.g. atlas, gmp2) which can benefit enormously through the use of cpu > extension instructions, s

Policy proposal: Cpu extension code, update-ldsoconf

2001-06-25 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! This is hardly formal, but it seems as though we don't have a policy on this yet, and a number of packages are appearing (e.g. atlas, gmp2) which can benefit enormously through the use of cpu extension instructions, such as {SSE,3DNow{{1,2}. Proposal outline: 1) All code which will no