Re: RFC: Dynamic hwcaps

2010-12-07 Thread Dave Martin
Hi, On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote: > On 12/6/2010 5:07 AM, Dave Martin wrote: > >>> But, >>> to enable binary distribution, having to have N copies of a library (let >>> alone an application) for N different ARM core variants just doesn't >>> make sense to me. >> >> Just so,

Re: RFC: Dynamic hwcaps

2010-12-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:45:42AM +, Dave Martin wrote: > Yes-- though I didn't elaborate on it. You need a packager that can > understand, say, that a binary built for ARMv5 EABI can interoperate > with ARMv7 binaries etc. > Again, I've heard it suggested that RPM can handle this, but I have

Re: RFC: Dynamic hwcaps

2010-12-07 Thread Dave Martin
Hi, On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:45:42AM +, Dave Martin wrote: >> Yes-- though I didn't elaborate on it.  You need a packager that can >> understand, say, that a binary built for ARMv5 EABI can interoperate >> with ARMv7 binarie

Re: RFC: Dynamic hwcaps

2010-12-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 03:06:51PM +, Dave Martin wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:45:42AM +, Dave Martin wrote: > >> Yes-- though I didn't elaborate on it.  You need a packager that can > >> understand, say

Re: RFC: Dynamic hwcaps

2010-12-07 Thread Dave Martin
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 03:06:51PM +, Dave Martin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:45:42AM +, Dave Martin wrote: >> >> Yes-- though I di

Re: RFC: Dynamic hwcaps

2010-12-07 Thread Ben Dooks
On 03/12/10 16:28, Dave Martin wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd be interested in people's views on the following idea-- feel free > to ignore if it doesn't interest you. > > > For power-management purposes, it's useful to be able to turn off > functional blocks on the SoC. > > For on-SoC peripherals, t

Re: Perfromance Test Results using gcc-linaro-4.5-2010.11-1

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Hope
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Prashanth S wrote: > > Dear All > >     Our team in Samsung collected some performance metrics for the following > 3 GCC cross compilers > > Gentoo Complier(part of Chrome OS Build Environment) > GCC 4.4.1 (Code Sourcery). > Linaro (gcc-linaro-4.5-2010.11-1) > > Fla