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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] [RESEND] ARM: pass -march=armv7-a when building NEON files with clang
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:23:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3205167.CfekeqRXnt@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1602181230440.13632@knanqh.ubzr>

On Thursday 18 February 2016 12:31:35 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > clang ignores the -mfpu=neon flag when building with -march=armv6:
> > 
> > In file included from lib/raid6/neon1.c:27:
> > clang/3.8.0/include/arm_neon.h:28:2: error: "NEON support not enabled"
> > 
> > There is no real need to build the file with -march=armv6 in a
> > multi-CPU enabled kernel, as nothing in here will ever get called
> > on an ARMv6 CPU. Adding -march=armv7 doesn't hurt and can only
> > improve the code quality.
> 
> Is this enough to override a previous -mfpu for gcc?

I did not see any build failures on gcc with this, so I assume it
has no effect. I could move the -march=armv7-a in front of
-mfpu=neon if you think that would be safer though.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-19 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18 17:05 [PATCH 0/3] ARM llvmlinux/clang build errors Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-18 17:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] [RESEND] ARM: pass -march=armv7-a when building NEON files with clang Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-18 17:31   ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-19 14:23     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-02-19 17:08       ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-18 17:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] [RESEND] ARM: fix copypage-*.c building " Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-18 17:34   ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-02-18 17:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] [RESEND] ARM: kprobes: use "I" constraint for inline assembly offsets Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-18 18:12   ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2016-02-18 18:59     ` Robin Murphy
2016-02-19  9:34       ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2016-02-18 18:24   ` Nicolas Pitre

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