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Re: GLIBC PowerPC CPU tuned addon V0.1
- From: "Lior Balkohen" <balkohen at gmail dot com>
- To: "Steven Munroe" <munroesj at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: libc-ports at sources dot redhat dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:05:47 +0200
- Subject: Re: GLIBC PowerPC CPU tuned addon V0.1
- References: <44465123.9020300@us.ibm.com>
2006/4/19, Steven Munroe <munroesj@us.ibm.com>:
> The GLIBC PowerPC CPU tunes addon is available for download from
> penquinppc.org @
> http://penguinppc.org/dev/glibc/glibc-powerpc-cpu-addon.html
>
> This add-on is intended to provide alternative (cpu tuned)
> implementations to existing glibc functions. At this stage, powerpc-cpu
> is the first to use the --with-cpu mechanism, which is new to glibc and
> needs some testing mileage. The intent is that powerpc-cpu will
> eventually be merged back into the glibc-cvs tree (perhaps under ports),
> but for now I will maintain the tar file.
>
> The --with-cpu is not powerpc specific and can be applied to any
> platform where gcc supports the --mcpu= option. Any one who is
> interested can use powerpc-cpu as an example to create their own cpu
> specific add-ons for their platform.
>
>
Nice! I have here some bits for 405 and 440 cores, and I would like
to send them, but it does not make sense since powerpc/nofpu port is
broken.
Probably I have to wait until it's fixed.