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From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: Adding TARGET_VECTOR
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:31:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E85FCF7.6030208@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5755C992-C736-4714-9DE3-761E3E74C6F8@kernel.crashing.org>

On 8/25/2011 7:35 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
> We have some packages like flac that are aware of vectorization that may or may not exist on a given processor.  I was wondering if adding something like TARGET_VECTOR similar to TARGET_FPU made sense as a way for recipes to decide on how to set various vectorization flags if needed.
>
> I was looking at this mostly from the PPC side in which we have:
>
> TARGET_VECTOR = "" /* processor has no vector hw */
> TARGET_VECTOR = "altivec" /* processor has AltiVec support */
> TARGET_VECTOR = "spe" /* processor has signal processing engine support */
> TARGET_VECTOR = "vsx" /* processor has Vector-Scalar Extension */
>

is target vector a property of FPU itself or is it a separate processing 
unit in hardware.?


> Not sure what makes sense for x86, ARM, or MIPS.

>
> - k
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-30 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-25 14:35 Adding TARGET_VECTOR Kumar Gala
2011-09-02 14:32 ` Kumar Gala
2011-09-30 17:31 ` Khem Raj [this message]
2011-09-30 17:49   ` McClintock Matthew-B29882
2011-09-30 20:05     ` Khem Raj
2011-09-30 20:08       ` McClintock Matthew-B29882

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