[PATCH v2 3/3] powerpc64le: Add glibc-hwcaps support
Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
tuliom@ascii.art.br
Mon Nov 16 14:51:27 GMT 2020
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
> GCC defines __MMA__ for -mcpu=power10, and source code will evenually be
> sensitive to that macro.
>
> I think it is important that -mcpu=power10 and the "power10"
> subdirectory mean the same thing.
I agree to stick with -mcpu values.
It was a bad interpretation of my part when I used OpenPOWER Foundation's
documents to explain the availability of features on GCC. These are different
usages.
GCC uses -mcpu to:
... specify a specific processor. Code generated under those options
runs best on that processor, and may not run at all on others.
So, -mcpu=power10 is the IBM POWER10 processor that supports MMA.
But then, we're back to this point you had raised:
> I think we need documentation what it means for a processor to implement
> ISA 3.0, and not altivec.
Unfortunately, I think this documentation will only exist after a new -mcpu
value is created.
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Tulio Magno
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