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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> something like that yes. Just aarch64 and aarch32 make it simple as that

ARMv8.1a has different semantics, how does we handle this?

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