Bart Smaalders wrote:
> John Plocher wrote:
>> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>> I also remain unfond of the approach of turning a bunch of key
>>> programs in /usr/bin into isaexec() links. While the isaexec()
>>> approach was not unreasonable for a few utilities that aren't run
>>> frequently like prtconf, I don't think the solution scales well.
>>
>>
>> Maybe there is an opportunity to leverage IPS here - have it install the
>> correct binaries from the repo (32, 64, x64, SPARC, Power, ARM...) based
>> on the isaexec-abilities of the target platform.
>
> I still prefer my boot time approach - root image is still portable,
> just like
> it's portable wrt processor features today.
Me too. Bart, I'm willing to help out here to make something like this
work out. (I am somewhat constrained.)
-- Garrett
>
> - Bart
>
>
