On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 05:56:57PM +1000, David Timms wrote: > Should I be suggesting to upstream to attempt to detect CPU before > running non-available instructions, eg as part of app startup ? > Can that even be done (reliably) ?
This is exactly what they should be doing, and yes it can be done reliably as many apps do this (start by looking at /proc/cpuinfo). (I also looked at how Debian have packaged this, but they don't seem to have fixed the problem at all). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
