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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/boot: Disable vector instructions
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:05:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181010220509.GF29268@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACPK8Xf+vF_87Ji+2XKzOM8HN6R8e+wKVYPZgQva9KwFSZDvJg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 08:22:54AM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 22:41, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> > Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> writes:
> > >  BOOTCFLAGS    := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
> > > -              -fno-strict-aliasing -Os -msoft-float -pipe \
> > > -              -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-builtin -fPIC -nostdinc \
> > > +              -fno-strict-aliasing -Os -msoft-float -mno-altivec -mno-vsx \
> >
> > That's going to break if the compiler doesn't understand -mno-vsx isn't it?
> >
> > I'm not sure if "support" a compiler that old though.
> 
> Segher, the kernel mandates 4.6 as the minimum. Do we need to worry
> about the compiler not supporting  -mno-altivec -mno-vsx?

-mvsx is gcc 4.5 and later.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-4.5/changes.html

-maltivec is...  Hrm, not so easy to find...  gcc 3.1 and later it seems.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-3.1/changes.html

You should be fine.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-10 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-10  2:45 [PATCH 0/2] powerpc/boot: Build wrapper with optimisations Joel Stanley
2018-10-10  2:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/boot: Disable vector instructions Joel Stanley
2018-10-10 12:11   ` Michael Ellerman
2018-10-10 21:52     ` Joel Stanley
2018-10-10 22:05       ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2018-10-10 23:59         ` Michael Ellerman
2018-10-15  4:01   ` [1/2] " Michael Ellerman
2018-10-10  2:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/boot: Build boot wrapper with optimisations Joel Stanley

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