processor type.

[Wilko Bulte]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:32:37PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote..
> On Friday 14 January 2005 04:07 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:26:18PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote..
> >
> > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:25:07PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote..
> > >
> > > > On Friday 14 January 2005 01:26 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:43:00AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote..
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Friday 14 January 2005 02:43 am, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:26:51PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote..
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:16:06AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
> > > > > > > > > I see in the compiler lines crawling by that gcc is asked to
> > > > > > > > > optimize for 'EV5' while being compatible with 'EV4'.  My
> > > > > > > > > Alpha is an EV4 --- I'm wondering if I would see better
> > > > > > > > > performance with a different flag there, but the gcc manual
> > > > > > > > > doesn't even acknowledge
> >
> > ....
> >
> > > > on "common" machines while still supporting older models.  There's
> > > > certainly no harm in bumping the default -mtune to ev6 if we feel that
> > > > most Alpha users are ev6 rather than ev5.
> > >
> > > Hm, I suppose I could do this in HEAD.
> > >
> > > I'll run an experiment with a worldstone built using an ev5 world and
> > > compare that to a worldstone built using an ev6 world.  Stay tuned.
> >
> > Things are not entirely clean it seems on RELENG_4_11 and probably RELENG_4
> > as well:
> >
> > cc -c -O -pipe -mcpu=ev6 -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs
> > -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
> > -Wcast-qual  -fformat-extensions -ansi  -nostdinc -I- -I. -I/usr/src/sys
> > -I/usr/src/sys/../include -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter  -D_KERNEL
> > -include opt_global.h  -mno-fp-regs -Wa,-mev56
> > /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c
> > cc -c -O -pipe -mcpu=ev6 -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs
> > -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
> > -Wcast-qual  -fformat-extensions -ansi  -nostdinc -I- -I. -I/usr/src/sys
> > -I/usr/src/sys/../include -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter  -D_KERNEL
> > -include opt_global.h  -mno-fp-regs -Wa,-mev56
> > /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c
> > {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> > {standard input}:2145: Error: opcode `minsw4' not supported for target ev56
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DS10.
> >
> > This -mev56 should obviously not be there.  Duh..
> >
> > The buildworld itself ran fine with CPUTYPE=ev6 in /etc/make.conf
> 
> I can't find where the -mev56 comes from, but I have used CPUTYPE=ev6 in my 
> DS20 for a long time on -CURRENT without a problem.

Looks like

NO_CPU_COPTFLAGS=true   # Don't add -march=<cpu> to COPTFLAGS automatically

fixes it on RELENG_4

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org