Re: [PATCH] x264: SPE is not compatible with Altivec

["David Nyström" <david.c.nystrom@gmail.com>]

On 2014-02-21 22:20, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 20:40 +0100, David Nystrom wrote:
>> Perhaps you know this already, but e500v2 is a cpu arch, same as
>> armv5.
> Is that really true?  I thought e500v2 was an actual core and the
> equivalent architecture was Power v2.03 or something.

Yes, good point.
I understand Sauls concern.
>
>> For future reference, should all ppc related CPU-arch specific stuff
>> be directed to the FSL bsp ?
> Since we do ship tune-ppce500.inc in oe-core, I think it makes sense to
> also include the overrides necessary to make compilation work with SPE
> enabled.  It doesn't seem unreasonable that users would expect that the
> recipes in oe-core would work with a configuration that comes as
> standard.
>
> However, adding overrides for e500v2 specifically does seem like a bad
> plan since we will then end up having to duplicate the thing for every
> other non-altivec configuration.  Can you come up with some override
> that will apply to all SPE configurations,
Yep, will return with V2.

> or failing that a patch for
> the configure script that will disable the altivec assembler if it
> notices that ${CC} is configured for SPE?
>
> p.
>
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