On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 22:17 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 14/01/2019 14:41, Luca Boccassi: > > Document the new value, as it's useful for distributions and users > > who need to use a stable baseline -march > > > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi < > > bl...@debian.org > > > > > Reviewed-by: Christian Ehrhardt < > > christian.ehrha...@canonical.com > > > > > --- > > +NOTE: machine=default will use the minimum required -march on all > > architectures > > +regardless of the capabilities of the machine where the build is > > happening. > > This option is not really selecting the minimum but something which > works > on every flavours of the CPU architecture. > For instance, on ARM it can select a cacheline of 128B to make it > work > with 64B and 128B micro-architectures. > > After discussing with Bruce and Luca I was convinced that "default" > is not a good name, and "machine=any" would be better. > The name "default" may also refer, in some contexts, to the config > of the basic/standard CPU design. > Even worst, "default" is not the default machine in DPDK... > > Today I am not sure what is the best meaningful name, > and I tend to think that "default" is well understood by everyone. > So I am OK to apply this patch, but please replace > "minimum required -march" > by > "config working" > or something similar, thanks.
No problem, updated in v3, thanks. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
