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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/5] package/mesa3d: explicitely disable asm
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:35:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170329233528.1eb13394@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49fce2a1-49a7-317c-486f-b3b6c37604a9@gmail.com>

Hello,

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:28:56 +0200, Romain Naour wrote:

> Le 29/03/2017 ? 06:41, Bernd Kuhls a ?crit :
> > Am Sun, 26 Mar 2017 18:28:52 +0200 schrieb Romain Naour:
> >   
> >> assembly are enabled by default on supported plaforms even while
> >> crosscompiling if host == target:
> >>
> >> checking whether to enable assembly... yes, x86_64
> >>
> >> It was also disabled in the mesa package in Fedora since 7.6 [1].
> >>
> >> [1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mesa.git/commit/?id=629c8726  
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am unsure about this patch, why shouldn't we use asm code when 
> > crosscompiling for host == target CPU?  
> 
> To be honest I don't really have an issue with assembly being enabled for my use
> case. But there is an issue when you want a reproducible build with the same
> defconfig build on a x86 and x86_64 host.

For which architectures is the assembly code available? We should
forcefully enable it for those architectures.

I agree with Romain that we shouldn't depend on something that looks at
the architecture of the host machine to decide if a feature for the
target should be enabled or not.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-29 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-26 16:28 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] package/mesa3d: allow to enable OpenGL texture float support Romain Naour
2017-03-26 16:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/5] package/mesa3d: add libvdpau optional dependency Romain Naour
2017-04-01 13:56   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-03-26 16:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/5] package/meda3d: add xlib_libXvMC " Romain Naour
2017-04-01 13:57   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-03-26 16:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/5] package/mesa3d: explicitely disable asm Romain Naour
2017-03-29  4:41   ` Bernd Kuhls
2017-03-29 21:28     ` Romain Naour
2017-03-29 21:35       ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2017-03-29 21:55         ` Romain Naour
2017-04-01 13:59   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-03-26 16:28 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 5/5] package/mesa3d: enable gallium extra hud Romain Naour
2017-03-28 17:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] package/mesa3d: allow to enable OpenGL texture float support Bernd Kuhls
2017-03-28 20:38   ` Romain Naour
2017-03-29  4:41     ` Bernd Kuhls
2017-03-29 21:46       ` Romain Naour
2017-04-01 13:56 ` Thomas Petazzoni

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