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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:57:18 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...il.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>, greg@...ah.com,
mingo@...e.hu, norsk5@...oo.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
mchehab@...hat.com, aris@...hat.com, edt@....ca,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@...cle.com,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] amd64_edac: misc fixes
Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Actually, popcnt got added to gas in July 2006 so checking the gas
> version should suffice, IMHO.
gas is part of binutils.
> Anyway, I proposed something similar before but Andrew suggested that we
> should simply slap in the opcode so we don't need the Kbuild changes.
> The advantage of the approach is that it works unconditionally on all
> toolchains and introduces less code changes. Hmm...
That really sucks, though, in the long run. I personally prefer to have
the "right thing" -- which in this case is probably gcc intrinsics --
and then a fallback that will gradually fall out of use.
-hpa
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