On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Jan Beich <jbe...@vfemail.net> wrote:
> Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> writes: > > > Greetings, > > > > This will serve as 'Last Call' for any objections to the plan to create > an > > armv7 MACHINE_ARCH in FreeBSD, as documented in FCP-0100. > [...] > > Some ports want NEON support but FCP-0100 is vague about FreeBSD-specific > differences between armv6 and armv7. Clang appears to enable NEON for all > *-gnueabi* targets but I have no clue about GCC. Apparently, Android and > Debian don't assume NEON on armv7. > > related: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221898 > Yes. We are vague about it on purpose. Just like we're vague about MMX, MMX2, etc on x86 because different processors can/want use different things. The goal, if it doesn't work already, is for NEON to work if used, but not be required, just like all the other optional features of a CPU. Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-toolchain-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"