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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] common flags for 2 cpu?
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:37:24
Message-Id: CAKpSnpJQ7h87pWj_zoewUeO96iDcruKkKNBmSO_po9A=j0H8kg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] common flags for 2 cpu? by Florian Philipp
1 On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > Am 17.08.2012 19:57, schrieb Jorge Almeida:
3 >> I read in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-895104.html :
4 >> atom
5 >> Intel Atom CPU with 64-bit extensions, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and SSSE3
6 >> instruction set support.
7 >>
8 >> Does this mean that these flags are pulled by -mtune=atom, or do we need to
9 >> ask for them explicitly? The WiKi shows how to find which flags are pulled by
10 >> -march=native, but not the other cases.
11 >>
12 >> Thanks
13 >>
14 >> Jorge Almeida
15 >>
16 >
17 > Oh, sorry, I didn't think of the second generation atoms. I guess your
18 > newer atom is a bit more different from prescott than the one I talked
19 > about. Anyway, using -march=prescott is still viable. It just means you
20 > lose a bit more in terms of usable SSE extensions on your atom.
21 >
22 > Your CFLAGS look good to me. They won't pull in anything that your
23 > prescott cannot handle.
24 >
25 Does -march=prescott not ensure that the prescott will work even if
26 unsupported flags are added? Of, course such flags wouldn't be of use by the
27 prescott, but the atom might be able to use them. Can you confirm this?
28
29 Thanks,
30
31 Jorge Almeida

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Re: [gentoo-user] common flags for 2 cpu? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>