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From: kloeri@g.o
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] ev6, ev67 or ev68?
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:35:35
Message-Id: 20050919193517.GA1968@kloeri
In Reply to: [gentoo-alpha] ev6, ev67 or ev68? by Davide Cittaro
1 On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:38:04PM +0200, Davide Cittaro wrote:
2 > On a DS25, with ev68 CPU, I cannot set -mcpu=ev68 as CFLAGS, because
3 > that option is not supported. Should I set it to ev6 or to ev67 then?
4 > Which is the main difference in that?
5 > If I set no -mcpu option I have problems since the g++ compiler seems
6 > to work not properly.
7 >
8 > Thanks
9 >
10 Using -mcpu=ev67 is fine. ev68 doesn't support any new instructions
11 afaik and scheduling is similar as well. If you decide to use -mcpu=ev6
12 you're going to miss the CIX instruction set and probably suffer
13 (somewhat) lower performance.
14
15 Regards,
16 Bryan Østergaard
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