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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net>
Cc: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>,
	hjl.tools@gmail.com, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86 CPU features detection for applications (and AMX)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:34:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmw3ifpv.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e07294c9-b02a-e1c5-3620-7fae7269fdf1@metux.net> (Enrico Weigelt's message of "Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:32:29 +0200")

* Enrico Weigelt:

> OTOH, if one really needs to be independent of distros, one should build
> a complete nano-distro, where everything's installed under certain
> prefix, including libc. Isn't a big deal at all - we have plenty tools
> for that, daily practise in embedded world. The only difference would be
> tweaking the ld scripts to set a different ld.so path.

It breaks integration with system-wide settings, such as user/group
databases, host name lookup, and cryptographic policies.  In many
environments, that is not really an option.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-30 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-23 15:04 x86 CPU features detection for applications (and AMX) Florian Weimer
2021-06-23 15:32 ` Dave Hansen
2021-07-08  6:05   ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-08 14:19     ` Dave Hansen
2021-07-08 14:31       ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-08 14:36         ` Dave Hansen
2021-07-08 14:41           ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-25 23:31 ` Thiago Macieira
2021-06-28 12:40   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-28 13:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-30 12:50       ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-30 15:36         ` Thiago Macieira
2021-07-01  7:35           ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-28 15:08     ` Thiago Macieira
2021-06-28 15:27       ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-28 16:13         ` Thiago Macieira
2021-06-28 17:11           ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-28 17:23             ` Thiago Macieira
2021-06-28 19:08               ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-28 19:26                 ` Thiago Macieira
2021-06-28 17:43           ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-28 19:05             ` Thiago Macieira
2021-06-30 14:32       ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-30 14:34         ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-06-30 15:16           ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-30 15:38             ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-01  8:08               ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-07-01  8:21                 ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-01 11:59                   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-07-06 12:57                     ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-30 15:29         ` Thiago Macieira
2021-07-01 11:57           ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-07-08  7:08   ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-08 15:13     ` Thiago Macieira
2021-07-08 17:56 ` Mark Brown

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