[OE-core] [PATCHv2][master] arch-armv8a.inc: Add tune for 32-bit ARMv8a

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mar 12, 2016, at 12:58 AM, Daniel Dragomir <daniel.dragomir at windriver.com> wrote:
>>
>> This patch adds tunes for 32-bit armv8a platforms. The user can select
>> little or big endian, hard or soft float, the vector floating-point
>> instruction set: vfpv4 or fp-armv8 and the thumb, neon, crc and crypto
>> extensions.
>
> This does not feel right to me. Look at how thunderX looks like
> ARMv8 is the time to fix this tune explodes on arm, this patch is not helping
> it.
>
> Do we need the hf/neon/vfp/thumb2 variants?

Do you mean we ought to use hf+neon+thumb2+fp-armv8 for everyone and
just have optional features in and out?


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