In article <20180929224713.ga14...@mail.duskware.de>, Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: >Hey folks, > >openssl on arm uses a weak symbol reference to "getauxval", and if the >symbol is available, calls it to get hardware information about the >current cpu. > >We never make this kind of hardware information availble via flags in the >exec auxval vector, but use sysctl instead. We also do not provide a getauxval >function. > >So far all fine. > >However, openssl is a library and should not assume special meaning for >unprotected symbols. Some third party apss come with a local getauxval >implementation and confuse things. > >I wonder if we should just disable the getauxval code path on NetBSD (and >maybe as a future extension even provide the proper sysctl code to get the >hw capabilities via sysctl)?
That's fine. christos
