On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 07:49:29PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > I disagree. IMO the most flexible approach is for glibc to stop using cpuid > for RTM detection and rely on the kernel to tell it if RTM is usable. Then > we have a single hardware blacklist in the kernel. We need to talk to > kernel people about this. Not to mention we might extend a getauxval-type > API to prevent applications from using cpuid directly e.g. create a > platform header for this with an x86 specific feature interface.
That looks like a good plan in the long term, that said if we involve the kernel in this it might takes months or even more until every is ready and in sync. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org