From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hetzner.pbcl.net (mail.pbcl.net [88.198.119.4]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397666612D for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [2a00:14f0:e04c:51ac:d546:989e:f847:6d3b] (helo=phil-desktop) by hetzner.pbcl.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1akxAQ-0006yw-6m; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:10:58 +0200 Message-ID: <1459271456.3476.211.camel@pbcl.net> From: Phil Blundell To: Dragomir Daniel , raj.khem@gmail.com, richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org, mark.hatle@windriver.com Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:10:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <56FAA65F.9060300@windriver.com> References: <1459178969-23397-1-git-send-email-daniel.dragomir@windriver.com> <1459203003.2322.29.camel@pbcl.net> <56FAA65F.9060300@windriver.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.3-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARMv8-A: Add tune for AArch32 state and AArch64 state X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:11:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 18:59 +0300, Dragomir Daniel wrote: > > arch-arm8a.inc add now support for armv8-A processors which support 2 > states: > 32-bit and 64-bit states. It makes more sense to have support for > both states > in the same inc file because both refer to the same arch.  OK.  And I assume you feel this is a greater benefit than having the 32-bit ARMv8 bits in a single file that could be shared by ARMv8-R and ARMv8-M, right? > So, you say that we should not use aarch32 and aarch64 for armv8a, > but to use something like armv8a64 and armv8a32? That would be my preference, but of course it's not my decision to make. p.