Re: [gentoo-dev] Pentium M stages

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 13:58, Josh Glover wrote:
> I am very interested in using Catalyst to make Stages 1-3 for Pentium M
> CPUs. The problem with just using Pentium 3 stages is that Pentium M
> supports SSE2 instructions, whereas P3 does not. Adding -msse2 to my
> CFLAGS is fine for me, but when I want to reinstall or setup a Faketoo[1]
> instance for Portage development on my laptop, I don't want to have to
> start from Stage 1. Even if no-one else in the world is interested in
> Pentium M stage tarballs (which I seriously doubt is the case), I would
> like them for my own use.
>
> I tried first with this specfile:
>
> subarch: pentium-m
> version_stamp: 20040509
> target: stage1
> rel_type: default
> rel_version: 2004.1
> profile: default-pentium3-2004.1
> snapshot: 20040413
> source_subpath: default/stage3-pentium3-2004.1
>
> But the result was (not surprisingly for those of you who are familiar
> with Catalyst):
>
> : jmglov@laurana; sudo catalyst -f /etc/catalyst/pentium-m-stage1-20040509.spec
> Setting storedir to default value "/var/tmp/catalyst"
> Setting portdir to default value "/usr/portage"
> Setting distdir to config file value "/usr/portage/distfiles"
> Setting options to config file value "ccache pkgcache"
> Setting sharedir to config file value "/usr/lib/catalyst"
> Compiler cache support enabled.
> Package cache support enabled.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/catalyst", line 100, in ?
>     mytarget=targetmap[myspec["target"]](myspec,addlargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/catalyst/modules/targets.py", line 367, in __init__
>     generic_stage_target.__init__(self,spec,addlargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/catalyst/modules/targets.py", line 73, in __init__
>     self.arch=self.subarchmap[self.settings["subarch"]](self.settings)
> KeyError: 'pentium-m'
>
> So I altered the specfile to this:
>
> subarch: pentium3
> version_stamp: 20040509
> target: stage1
> rel_type: default
> rel_version: 2004.0
> profile: default-pentium3-2004.0
> snapshot: 20040413
> source_subpath: default/stage3-pentium3-2004.1
>
> (I tweaked the rel_version and profile back to 2004.0 because setting
> them to 2004.1 was resulting in a bad symlink which killed Catalyst
> at a later point.)
>
> I also added an envscript, containing the single line:
>
> export CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
>
> The problem is that my CFLAGS seem to be ignored when Catalyst starts
> to build the stage.
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

I was under the impression that stage1 is always a stage1 and doesn't
have optimizations.  See if when you get to stage2 it doesn't start
using your optimizations as placed in your envscript.

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Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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