[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/6] target: add symbols for PowerPC cpu features
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Tue Jun 12 06:15:01 UTC 2012
On 06/10/12 13:46, Samuel Martin wrote:
> +# PowerPC cpu features
> +config BR2_POWERPC_CPU_G3
> + bool
> +config BR2_POWERPC_CPU_G4
> + bool
> +config BR2_POWERPC_CPU_G5
> + bool
I was expecting Altivec here, not the PowerPC CPU generations... These CPU
features are relevant mostly to allow libraries to select optimized assembly
code, and I don't see much use of G5-specific assembly. And anyway, the
-mcpu options for a particular CPU are already passed by buildroot.
Regards,
Arnout
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