pixman: Branch 'master' - 9 commits

Jeff Muizelaar jeff at infidigm.net
Wed May 13 14:41:15 PDT 2009


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:27:20PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 14:32:52 -0700, Jeff Muizelaar wrote:
> 
> > +	// if we don't have 2.6.29, we have to do this hack; set
> > +	// the env var to trust HWCAP.
> > +	if (!getenv("ARM_TRUST_HWCAP") && arm_has_v7)
> > +	    arm_has_neon = TRUE;
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as I understand this, old kernels don't set the neon hwcap, while new
> ones do on machines that support it.
> If there are armv7 machines without neon (I don't know anything about
> arm), wouldn't it make sense to trust HWCAP by default, so we get the
> correct behaviour on new kernels?  If there aren't, then why do we need
> this conditional at all?

Yeah, I'll probably eliminate that part all together.

Thanks,

-Jeff


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