From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add ARM tune file overhaul based largely on work from Mark Hatle
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:38:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E325549.6080908@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311780347.30326.376.camel@phil-desktop>
On 07/27/2011 08:25 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 09:58 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> For the tune names.. armv5 means I want classic ARM instructions, while armv5t
>> means I was thumb instructions.
>>
>> So armv5 and armv5t are distinct in the contents of the tunings.
>
> Ah, I see. Does that go for v4t too? I can imagine cases where you
> would want to say "select the v4T ISA but generate ARM code not Thumb".
>
>> Yes, the mention of DSP should be using the 'e'. What I'm not sure of is does
>> the "dsp" capabilities actually change any of the code or support generated. If
>> not then we can ignore it.
>
> Yes. PLD, for example, is only available in ARMv5E (not ARMv5) and this
> will affect any code which uses __builtin_prefetch(). I don't think GCC
> will ever open-code the saturating arithmetic instructions, but it does
> expose the v5/v5e distinction through preprocessor macros and source
> code might use that to select asm() statements which use those opcodes.
LDRD/STRD which are armv5e only are used by gcc IIRC
>
>> For armv5 this gives us:
>>
>> armv5, armv5t, armv5e, armv5te... add in their VFP variants and the hard float
>> EABI...
>
> Does anybody really want the hardfloat abi on armv5? I guess it doesn't
> hurt all that much to offer it, but anything that makes that monstrous
> set of .inc files bigger seems like a bad thing.
>
> p.
>
>
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2011-07-26 12:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add ARM tune file overhaul based largely on work from Mark Hatle Richard Purdie
2011-07-26 12:46 ` Koen Kooi
2011-07-27 12:17 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-27 13:33 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-27 14:27 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-27 14:33 ` Koen Kooi
2011-07-27 14:49 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-27 14:57 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-27 15:01 ` Koen Kooi
2011-07-27 15:08 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-27 15:13 ` Koen Kooi
2011-07-27 15:17 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-29 6:31 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-29 6:20 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-27 14:34 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-27 14:44 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-27 14:55 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-29 6:18 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-29 7:15 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-29 6:08 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-29 6:47 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-29 6:51 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-27 14:34 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-27 14:58 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-27 15:25 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-27 15:29 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-27 15:49 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-27 17:19 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-27 19:31 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-27 20:48 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-27 21:16 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-28 0:43 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-28 7:24 ` Martin Jansa
2011-07-28 8:54 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-28 18:17 ` Martin Jansa
2011-07-29 6:41 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-29 6:38 ` Khem Raj [this message]
2011-07-29 7:13 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-29 6:27 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-27 17:31 ` do_rootfs broken, was: " Koen Kooi
2011-07-27 18:19 ` Koen Kooi
2011-07-28 11:39 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-29 5:59 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-29 7:25 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-29 8:22 ` Koen Kooi
2011-07-26 12:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add basic Mips core tune config Richard Purdie
2011-07-26 14:41 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-26 16:51 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-26 17:08 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-26 19:47 ` Khem Raj
2011-08-11 11:25 ` Phil Blundell
2011-08-11 12:08 ` Richard Purdie
2011-08-11 12:29 ` Phil Blundell
2011-08-11 14:28 ` Richard Purdie
2011-08-11 14:49 ` Khem Raj
2011-08-12 14:35 ` Phil Blundell
2011-08-12 15:28 ` Khem Raj
2011-08-11 15:54 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-26 12:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add basic PowerPC " Richard Purdie
2011-07-26 13:47 ` Kumar Gala
2011-07-26 13:59 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-26 14:59 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-26 15:22 ` Kumar Gala
2011-07-26 16:18 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-26 21:56 ` Kumar Gala
2011-07-26 22:02 ` Kumar Gala
2011-07-26 22:29 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-26 22:52 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-27 3:23 ` Kumar Gala
2011-07-27 8:36 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-27 8:44 ` Koen Kooi
2011-07-27 9:30 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-28 5:25 ` Add basic PowerPC core tune config (bug?) Kumar Gala
2011-07-28 6:09 ` Saul Wold
2011-07-28 7:48 ` Cui, Dexuan
2011-07-28 8:47 ` Paul Eggleton
2011-07-28 8:57 ` Koen Kooi
2011-07-28 9:20 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-28 10:00 ` Koen Kooi
2011-07-28 10:03 ` Phil Blundell
2011-07-27 9:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add basic PowerPC core tune config Phil Blundell
2011-07-26 22:03 ` Kumar Gala
2011-07-27 8:31 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-26 20:03 ` Khem Raj
2011-07-26 14:57 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-26 16:36 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-26 16:53 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-26 17:05 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-26 17:15 ` Mark Hatle
2011-07-26 19:21 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-26 20:28 ` Richard Purdie
2011-07-26 20:13 ` Khem Raj
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