Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> writes:
> Attached is a patch that *might* fix the build of OpenBLAS on MIPS.
>
> The LOONGSON3A and LOONGSON3B targets both enable the use of special
> extended instructions which may not be available on other MIPS CPUs.
> This patch forces the SICORTEX target to be used, which should limit the
> code to only standard MIPS instructions.
>
> I don’t know if this would actually work and I note that SICORTEX is
> listed as a “mips” target, rather than “mips64”, so maybe this is doomed
> to fail. I would appreciate it if someone with a MIPS machine could
> test this patch.
With this patch, openblas builds successfully on mips64el, although I
cannot say whether it works, since there are no tests.
Is there a (preferably not huge) package that uses openblas and has a
test suite that I could try?
Mark
