Re: [RFC] [0/5] tuning options for PPC64

2008-07-23 Thread Marvin
Hi, and thanks for the feedback. To make it short, the conclusions I draw from that are: - let the cpu type be choosen optionaly - both target cpu and tuning cpu should be selectable - if one cpu gets choosen, it should select some feature flag, mcpu and mtune option

[RFC] [0/5] tuning options for PPC64

2008-07-21 Thread Marvin
Hi, the following five patches should lay a foundation to more fine-grained tuning on PPC64 cpus. They must be applied in order. The motivation are the discussions of serveral cpu specific optimizations in the past on this list, cleanup of the wired Makefile/CONFIG_POWERx constructs and at