On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:43:19 -0800
Christopher Head ch...@chead.ca wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:01:16 -0800
Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote:
Why should we have to foresee the future? We can easily add support
for new flags in CPU_FLAGS_* variables at any time.
Ah, what I meant was
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:21:54 +0100
Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote:
you will not see it if no package use it.
I guess you mean I wouldn’t see it in emerge output if no package uses
it, even if it is USE-expanded? Yes, I’m aware of that. But if all the
flags are listed together in one
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:29:22 -0800
Christopher Head ch...@chead.ca wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:21:54 +0100
Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote:
you will not see it if no package use it.
I guess you mean I wouldn’t see it in emerge output if no package uses
it, even if it is
On January 20, 2015 12:47:03 AM PST, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote:
So, you're telling me that if you have a list of 90 cpu extensions, you
will from time to time open that list to see if there is a 91st one
added ? I think most people won't even notice, at best they'll look for
the
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:17:35 -0800 Christopher Head wrote:
On January 20, 2015 12:47:03 AM PST, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org
wrote:
So, you're telling me that if you have a list of 90 cpu extensions, you
will from time to time open that list to see if there is a 91st one
added ? I
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Christopher Head ch...@chead.ca wrote:
On January 20, 2015 12:47:03 AM PST, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org
wrote:
So, you're telling me that if you have a list of 90 cpu extensions, you
will from time to time open that list to see if there is a 91st one
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:01:16 -0800
Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote:
Why should we have to foresee the future? We can easily add support
for new flags in CPU_FLAGS_* variables at any time.
Ah, what I meant was that whoever maintains this flag list only needs
to forsee the present—when AMD
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:59:37 +0100
Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote:
That said, long time ago I was taught that instruction set
use-flags should be avoided as much as possible. I don't remember
the source for that anymore.
Question to all, is that documented anywhere, and what
On 01/14/2015 09:55 AM, Christopher Head wrote:
On January 14, 2015 7:16:46 AM PST, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org
wrote:
however, i disagree with your rationale: asm for specific cpu
extensions tend to be written and tested after given cpu is available,
thus if you have a brand new cpu,
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:58:21 +0100
Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
Solution: per-arch USE_EXPANDs for flags, e.g.:
CPU_FLAGS_X86=3dnow 3dnowext avx ...
CPU_FLAGS_ARM=neon ... # arm* flags?
CPU_FLAGS_MIPS=... # mips* flags?
Any specific comments? I can handle x86 but I'd
Am Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2015, 12:58:21 schrieb Michał Górny:
Solution: per-arch USE_EXPANDs for flags, e.g.:
CPU_FLAGS_X86=3dnow 3dnowext avx ...
CPU_FLAGS_ARM=neon ... # arm* flags?
CPU_FLAGS_MIPS=... # mips* flags?
I like it, because it standardizes and removes causes for
On 01/14/2015 10:28 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
Would this approach clean up some of the masking? Eg. I hate having to
mask sse and friends in base/use.mask and then unmask them in
arch/amd64/use.mask. I'm not sure if there's a technique to make a use
expand flags relevant only for a
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:58:21 +0100
Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
Any specific comments? I can handle x86 but I'd appreciate specific
arch teams replying about more exotic arches.
+1
i like the idea, but with a list of useflags that would get converted
this could reach more people i
On January 14, 2015 7:16:46 AM PST, Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote:
however, i disagree with your rationale: asm for specific cpu
extensions tend to be written and tested after given cpu is available,
thus if you have a brand new cpu, you want to be notified if a package
gains support
On 01/14/15 10:16, Alexis Ballier wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:58:21 +0100
Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
Any specific comments? I can handle x86 but I'd appreciate specific
arch teams replying about more exotic arches.
+1
i like the idea, but with a list of useflags that would get
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