Re: [PATCH v4] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

2008-07-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:48 -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote: > Some IBM POWER-based platforms have the ability to run in a > mode which mostly appears to the OS as a different processor from the > actual hardware. For example, a Power6 system may appear to be a > Power5+, which makes the AT_PLATFORM val

[PATCH v4] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string

2008-07-21 Thread Nathan Lynch
Some IBM POWER-based platforms have the ability to run in a mode which mostly appears to the OS as a different processor from the actual hardware. For example, a Power6 system may appear to be a Power5+, which makes the AT_PLATFORM value "power5+". This means that programs are restricted to the I