[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] armv8: update to use armv8-a tune

[Mark Hatle]

On 8/1/17 10:20 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:17 AM, akuster808 <akuster808 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 07/31/2017 12:04 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/31/17 10:51 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 7/31/17 12:40 PM, akuster808 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07/31/2017 10:31 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/31/17 12:16 PM, Armin Kuster wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster808 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>   meta/conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv8.inc | 25
>>>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>   1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv8.inc
>>>>>>> b/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv8.inc
>>>>>>> index 5e832fa..dc1ba5e 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv8.inc
>>>>>>> +++ b/meta/conf/machine/include/arm/arch-armv8.inc
>>>>>>> @@ -1 +1,26 @@
>>>>>>> +DEFAULTTUNE ?= "armv8-a"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> do we want the '-a'?  The other arm (7) are of the format armv7a (no
>>>>>> '-').
>>>>>
>>>>> works for me either way.
>>>>>
>>>>> While we are at it. How would we want ‘armv8.1-a’, ‘armv8.2-a’,
>>>>> ‘armv8.3-a'
>>>>> formated as?
>>>>
>>>> My preference is to drop the '-'.  As for the '.', I'm not sure.. not
>>>> something
>>>> we've run across before.
>>>>
>>>> We could just drop it (the '.'), but it really depends on if armv81a
>>>> would
>>>> confuse someone (familiar with arm) or not.
>>>
>>> I would suggest to also sync  with other distros and ensure that we dont
>>> do something different. Its very costly later. Since applications get
>>> ported to most common combination
>>
>> Sync what part? naming of file? ( sorry lost regarding your comment)
> 
> naming convention for arch e.g.
> 

I'd say Debian/Ubuntu -- Fedora/RH would be the two primary sources I'd look at.
 Between debian package names and RPM package names, it should give a clue if
there is any community standard forming for those names.

(May still be too premature for those environments for the armv8.X-a naming...
and I've not seen it discussed on any other lists either.)

--Mark