[OE-core] [PATCH] tune-cortexa72-cortexa53: Add tune

[Joshua Watt]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 7:41 PM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 07:28:28PM -0600, Joshua Watt wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 7:22 PM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 06:47:33PM -0600, Joshua Watt wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 5:10 PM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 04:03:09PM -0600, Joshua Watt wrote:
> > > > > > Adds a tune for Cortex-A72 Cortex-A53 big.LITTLE SoCs, e.g.
> Rockchip
> > > > > > RK3399
> > > > > >...
> > > > > > +TUNE_FEATURES_tune-cortexa72-cortexa53 =
> > > "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-aarch64} cortexa72-cortexa53"
> > > > > >...
> > > > >
> > > > > Looking at the gcc sources cortexa72-cortexa53 defaults to crc
> enabled,
> > > > > so TUNE_FEATURES_tune-cortexa72-cortexa53 must contain crc.
> > > >
> > > > I think that's armv8.1-a, the cortex A72 is only armv8-a (at least
> > > > AFAICT), so I think crc would still be an optional feature.
> > > >...
> > >
> > > It is optional for armv8-a, but not for Cortex A53 or A72.
> > >
> > > What matters in practice is that gcc automatically enables it for
> > > cortex-a72.cortex-a53, so the resulting code might not run on
> > > armv8-a hardware without support for crc - things will break
> > > if the tune features are not 100% aligned with whatever gcc
> > > is doing.
> >
> > I agree, but I can't find anywhere that says crc is enabled by default
> when
> > the tune is cortexa72.cortexa53. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong location?
>
>
> https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config/arm/arm-cpus.in#L1278


Excellent. I'll send v3.

Thanks for the help


>
>
>
> > Thanks
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
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