Re: [Mesa-dev] [Mesa-stable] [PATCH 2/3] gallivm: Override getHostCPUName() "generic" w/ "pwr8" (v3)

2017-02-10 Thread Ben Crocker
Hi Emil, Thanks for the feedback, and I agree. I'm adding such a comment now. -- Ben - Original Message - From: "Emil Velikov" To: "Ben Crocker" Cc: "ML mesa-dev" , "12.0 13.0 17.0" Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 9:09:37 AM Subject: Re: [Mesa-stable] [PATCH 2/3] gallivm: O

Re: [Mesa-dev] [Mesa-stable] [PATCH 2/3] gallivm: Override getHostCPUName() "generic" w/ "pwr8" (v3)

2017-02-09 Thread Emil Velikov
Hi Ben, On 19 January 2017 at 01:43, Ben Crocker wrote: > If llvm::sys::getHostCPUName() returns "generic", override > it with "pwr8" (on PPC64LE). > > This is a work-around for a bug in LLVM: a table entry for "POWER8NVL" > is missing, resulting in (big-endian) "generic" being returned on > litt