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From: Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: Andre McCurdy <andre.mccurdy@entropic.com>
Subject: Re: [meta-qt5] why does Qt5 build with ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm"
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:46:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140217214623.GU22890@denix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP71Wjy4dxnDZFb3x_5zPg5HV-VOakeYtFz+8o0h2xk08R1=zQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 02:27:51PM -0700, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> hi,
> 
> does anybody know why in Qt5/qtbase.inc, we have:
> 
> ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm"
> 
> Could it be an a low hanging fruit from the past? e.g. before
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-16402 or
> https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtbase/commit/a3bd9d4c0f3d9e80dbe35bd88649b245dca5f410?

Hmm, I would assume that's here from 4.8 days, although I haven't tried 
dropping that line for latest Qt5... Would make sense to do some more testing.


> as a matter of fact, for our project Qt5 (and QtWebkit) are building
> (and working fine) when built with Thumb2, outside of OE. Also using
> ARM instruction set instead of Thumb2 enforces Webkit to use the ARM
> version of the javascript JIT, while the Thumb2 JIT engine seems to
> work a lot better in our testing...

Seems like worth the effort to re-test the need for that setting. Unless 
someone else has tried it already and found out the issue is still there

-- 
Denys


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-17 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-17 21:27 [meta-qt5] why does Qt5 build with ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm" Nicolas Dechesne
2014-02-17 21:46 ` Denys Dmytriyenko [this message]
2014-02-17 23:03   ` Martin Jansa
2014-02-18  5:33     ` Andre McCurdy
2014-02-18  6:56       ` Martin Jansa
2014-02-18  8:01         ` [meta-qt5][PATCH] qtbase.inc: don't force ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET to arm Andre McCurdy
2014-02-17 22:44 ` [meta-qt5] why does Qt5 build with ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm" Khem Raj

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