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Re: config.guess for ev68 [Was: Re: glibc-2.2.4pre2 success onalpha]
Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com> writes:
> > The cpu detect doesn't work for ev68, which has a different
> > amask value (0x1307) from the ev67 (0x307), so
> > scripts/config.guess returns plain alpha-unknown-linux-gnu.
> > I'd imagine that it would be better to default an ev68 to
> > host type alphaev67 until/whenever alphaev68 support is added.
>
> Please first send your patch to the config maintainers (CC'ed). If
> they approve it, we'll import the new config.guess version in
> glibc.
>
> I'm going to discard this patch because the current version of
> config.guess reworks all of this stuff -- please try it out and see
> how it goes. It uses /proc/cpuinfo, so if /proc/cpuinfo says the
> right thing on the ev68, then it's a no-op.
I just had a look at the current version and the patch still seems to
apply. Did you commit it already?
Andreas
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