Re: cache info

Daniel Jacobowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> (1)  SH specific system call to get the cache info,
>> (2)  interface (including system call) to read hurmless CPU
>>      registers,
>> (3)  special device,
>> (4)  ...
>> 
>> Perhaps (1) is cleaner as an interface than another methods though
>> I'm a bit concerned with SH specific system call number.  We have
>> "holes" in system call numbers but there might be no guarantee
>> that they won't be used for another purpose.
>> 
>> Thoughts?  Implementations will be more welcome :-)
> 
> PowerPC does this using ELF auxilliary data.  Would that do?
 
Sounds good!  I'll take a look at the PowerPC implementation.
Thanks.

BTW, it reminds me
  http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh/ml/linux-sh/2003-08/msg00055.html
which didn't appeal to anyone :-)

Regards,
	kaz


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