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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Ruth Ivimey-Cook <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>
Cc: Luigi Genoni <kernel@Expansa.sns.it>, Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>,
	"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>,
	Luca Barbieri <ldb@ldb.ods.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Linux-Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.4] [2.5] [i386] Add support for GCC 3.1 -march=pentium{-mmx,3,4}
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 03:08:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020526010849.GA10643@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205260044270.10923-100000@sharra.ivimey.org>


On 2002.05.26 Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
>On Sun, 26 May 2002, Luigi Genoni wrote:
>>On Sun, 26 May 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:37:39AM +0200, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>>>  > Could you also split
>>>  > 	Pentium-Pro/Celeron/Pentium-II     CONFIG_M686
>>>  > into
>>>  > 	Pentium-Pro            CONFIG_M686
>>>  > 	Pentium-II/Celeron     CONFIG_MPENTIUMII
>>> There are also a few extra Athlon targets iirc. athlon-xp and the like,
>>> which I'm not sure the purpose of. Some gcc know-all want to clue me in
>>> to what these offer over -march=athlon ?
>>>
>>I do not know about the gcc options, but Athlon XP/MP has sse instruction,
>>while tbird has not, so it could be relate to this.
>>

Problem is that CPU selection is not based on cpu itself, but in options
offered by previous gcc compilers.

I think that the menu should contain separate config options for each
processor type, so it is easily modifiable for specific optimizations
offered by new compilers (for example, gcc-3.1 splitting i686 in
pentium-pro, p2, p3 and p4), or some braindead hacker can optimize
code snippets for some kind of processor.

-- 
J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
mailto:jamagallon@able.es
Mandrake Linux release 8.3 (Cooker) for i586
Linux werewolf 2.4.18 #1 SMP sáb may 25 14:44:46 CEST 2002 i686

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-26  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-25 21:01 [PATCH] [2.4] [2.5] [i386] Add support for GCC 3.1 -march=pentium{-mmx,3,4} Luca Barbieri
2002-05-25 23:37 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-05-25 22:53   ` Dave Jones
2002-05-25 23:29     ` Luigi Genoni
2002-05-25 23:49       ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2002-05-26  0:30         ` Dave Jones
2002-05-27  8:53           ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-29 11:42             ` Dave Jones
2002-05-29 19:57               ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-30  6:40                 ` Jan Hubicka
2002-05-30 10:25                   ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-30 10:45                     ` Jan Hubicka
2002-05-26  1:08         ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2002-05-26  0:21           ` Dave Jones
     [not found]   ` <1022380785.11859.59.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
2002-05-26  9:11     ` J.A. Magallon
2002-05-26 19:14       ` Alan Cox

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