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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Tobias Doerffel <tobias.doerffel@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Specific support for Intel Atom architecture
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 07:38:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090503053821.GI570@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F9DB70.2050906@zytor.com>

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:10:08AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu b/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu
> >> index 80177ec..07a11b0 100644
> >> --- a/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu
> >> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_MCYRIXIII)	+= $(call cc-option,-march=c3,-march=i486) $(align)-f
> >>  cflags-$(CONFIG_MVIAC3_2)	+= $(call cc-option,-march=c3-2,-march=i686)
> >>  cflags-$(CONFIG_MVIAC7)		+= -march=i686
> >>  cflags-$(CONFIG_MCORE2)		+= -march=i686 $(call tune,core2)
> >> +cflags-$(CONFIG_MATOM)		+= -march=atom $(call tune,atom)
> >>  
> 
> There should be a fallback option used here rather than requiring a new
> gcc, e.g. something like:
> 
> $(call cc-option,-march=atom,-march=i686)

if it's an in-order architecture, wouldn't it be better to tune for i386
or i486 instead ?

Willy


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-03  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-30 12:08 Specific support for Intel Atom architecture Tobias Doerffel
2009-04-30 15:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-30 17:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-30 17:10   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-03  5:38     ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2009-05-03  6:48       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-03 11:08         ` Tobias Doerffel
2009-05-04 13:14           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-04 13:32             ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-04 17:55               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-03 14:53       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-03 18:30         ` Willy Tarreau
2009-05-03 18:37           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-05-03 19:38             ` Måns Rullgård
2009-05-04  7:22 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-11 21:30   ` Tobias Doerffel
2009-05-12  6:53     ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-12 14:20   ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-05-12 15:04     ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-12 17:45       ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-05-12 18:13         ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-14  5:04         ` Harvey Harrison
2009-05-14 13:38           ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-05-14 14:01             ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-14 16:19               ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-05-14 17:29                 ` Andi Kleen

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