Re: RFC: Dynamic hwcaps

2010-12-05 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Hi, On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 16:28:27 + Dave Martin wrote: > This allows for more active power management of such functional > blocks: if the CPU is not fully loaded, you can turn them off -- the > kernel can spot when there is significant idle time and do this. If > the CPU becomes fully loaded,

Re: RFC: Dynamic hwcaps

2010-12-05 Thread Mark Mitchell
On 12/3/2010 11:35 AM, Dave Martin wrote: > What you describe is one of two mechanisms currently in use--- the > other is for a single library to contain two implementations of > certain functions and to choose between them based on the hwcaps. > Typically, one set of functions is chosen a library

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2010-12-05 Thread Yao Qi
== Linaro GCC == * Reproduce regression of my ldm/stm backport on 4.5, which is caused by the other two merged patches in ifcvt.c. Fix them. Propose merge request again. Learn how to sync/merge changes from one branch to the other branch. * Fix VFP_D0_D7 handling in predicate vfp_register_opera

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2010-12-05 Thread Chung-Lin Tang
== GCC related == * PR44557, Thumb-1 ICE: originally thought a fix of constraint will work, however after simplifying the testcase, received another ICE in postreload, due to a load of IP, which is not permitted in Thumb-1. Looking at some reload internals as part of fixing this. * PR45416, A