GCC version 4.8.5 does not pre-define __ARM_NEON. NEON is not
optional for ArmV8. Hence NEON related code can be enabled
when __aarch64__ is defined.
Bugzilla ID: 82
Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
Reported-by: Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@mellanox.com>
Reported-by: Thomas F Herbert <therb...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.y...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin...@arm.com>
Acked-by: Gavin Hu <gavin...@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com>
---
V2:
* Corrected the order of contribution tags
* Added Jerin's Ack
config/arm/meson.build | 3 ++-
mk/rte.cpuflags.mk | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/config/arm/meson.build b/config/arm/meson.build
index 40dbc87..94cca49 100644
--- a/config/arm/meson.build
+++ b/config/arm/meson.build
@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ else
endif
message(machine_args)
-if cc.get_define('__ARM_NEON', args: machine_args) != ''
+if (cc.get_define('__ARM_NEON', args: machine_args) != '' or
+ cc.get_define('__aarch64__', args: machine_args) != '')
dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_NEON', 1)
compile_time_cpuflags += ['RTE_CPUFLAG_NEON']
endif
diff --git a/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk b/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
index 6071313..43ed841 100644
--- a/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
+++ b/mk/rte.cpuflags.mk
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ CPUFLAGS += VSX
endif
# ARM flags
-ifneq ($(filter $(AUTO_CPUFLAGS),__ARM_NEON),)
+ifneq ($(filter __ARM_NEON __aarch64__,$(AUTO_CPUFLAGS)),)
CPUFLAGS += NEON
endif
--
2.7.4
