Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors

2018-06-12 Thread Andre McCurdy
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:32 PM, Herve Jourdain wrote: > Hi Andre, > > I believe I did say always present on armv8 and armv7, I did not mean before > that. Right. The point of considering older architecture levels was that IF we were to drop support for armv4 (I'm not necessarily suggesting

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors

2018-06-12 Thread Herve Jourdain
Hi Andre, I believe I did say always present on armv8 and armv7, I did not mean before that. Having separate tunes for thumb support was necessary on previous architectures where it was optional, but it persisted for architectures which made thumb mandatory. I’m not even advocating removing

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors

2018-06-12 Thread Andre McCurdy
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Mark Hatle wrote: > On 6/12/18 3:39 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Mark Hatle wrote: >>> On 6/12/18 10:49 AM, Herve Jourdain wrote: Hi, So I agree with you about restricting to what gcc can support, that's

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors

2018-06-12 Thread Mark Hatle
On 6/12/18 3:39 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Mark Hatle wrote: >> On 6/12/18 10:49 AM, Herve Jourdain wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> So I agree with you about restricting to what gcc can support, that's >>> actually my proposal (actually, probably a subset of what gcc can

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors

2018-06-12 Thread Andre McCurdy
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Mark Hatle wrote: > On 6/12/18 10:49 AM, Herve Jourdain wrote: >> Hi, >> >> So I agree with you about restricting to what gcc can support, that's >> actually my proposal (actually, probably a subset of what gcc can support). >> So for armv8, gcc supports, as

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors

2018-06-12 Thread Mark Hatle
ropriately at the distro level. Yes, that might be needed now that thumb is theoretically always supposed to be present. --Mark > Cheers, > Herve > > -Original Message- > From: Mark Hatle [mailto:mark.ha...@windriver.com] > Sent: mardi 12 juin 2018 16:32 > To: Herve

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors

2018-06-12 Thread Herve Jourdain
stro level. Cheers, Herve -Original Message- From: Mark Hatle [mailto:mark.ha...@windriver.com] Sent: mardi 12 juin 2018 16:32 To: Herve Jourdain ; 'Koen Kooi' ; 'Randy Li' Cc: 'OE-core' Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors On 6/12/18 4:30

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors

2018-06-12 Thread Mark Hatle
bedded.org > [mailto:openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Koen > Kooi > Sent: mardi 12 juin 2018 11:01 > To: Randy Li > Cc: OE-core > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex > processors > > > >> Op

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors

2018-06-12 Thread Herve Jourdain
s.openembedded.org [mailto:openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Koen Kooi Sent: mardi 12 juin 2018 11:01 To: Randy Li Cc: OE-core Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors > Op 9 jun. 2018, om 08:26 heeft Randy Li het vo

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 0/4] Add tune for ARMv8 and some cortex processors

2018-06-12 Thread Koen Kooi
> Op 9 jun. 2018, om 08:26 heeft Randy Li het volgende > geschreven: > > I read the ARMv8 manual again, it looks the hardware float is mandatory > in Linux Distributions and toolchain libraries. Even some cortex > processors can be configured without FPU/NEON hardware, but I don't > think