Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2016-01-03 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Am 03.01.2016 um 19:20 schrieb Oded Gabbay: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Roland Scheidegger wrote: >> Am 03.01.2016 um 13:50 schrieb Oded Gabbay: >>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Roland Scheidegger >>> wrote: Am 31.12.2015 um 10:30 schrieb Oded Gabbay: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2016-01-03 Thread Oded Gabbay
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > Am 03.01.2016 um 13:50 schrieb Oded Gabbay: >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Roland Scheidegger >> wrote: >>> Am 31.12.2015 um 10:30 schrieb Oded Gabbay: On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > Am

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2016-01-03 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Am 03.01.2016 um 13:50 schrieb Oded Gabbay: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Roland Scheidegger > wrote: >> Am 31.12.2015 um 10:30 schrieb Oded Gabbay: >>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Roland Scheidegger >>> wrote: Am 30.12.2015 um 10:46 schrieb Oded Gabbay: > On Wed, Dec 30, 201

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2016-01-03 Thread Oded Gabbay
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > Am 31.12.2015 um 10:30 schrieb Oded Gabbay: >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Roland Scheidegger >> wrote: >>> Am 30.12.2015 um 10:46 schrieb Oded Gabbay: On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > >

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2015-12-31 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Am 31.12.2015 um 10:30 schrieb Oded Gabbay: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Roland Scheidegger > wrote: >> Am 30.12.2015 um 10:46 schrieb Oded Gabbay: >>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Roland Scheidegger >>> wrote: So, if I see that right, you will automatically generate binarie

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2015-12-31 Thread Oded Gabbay
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Oded Gabbay wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Oded Gabbay wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Roland Scheidegger >> wrote: >>> Am 30.12.2015 um 10:46 schrieb Oded Gabbay: On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Roland Scheidegger wrote:

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2015-12-31 Thread Oded Gabbay
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Oded Gabbay wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Roland Scheidegger > wrote: >> Am 30.12.2015 um 10:46 schrieb Oded Gabbay: >>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Roland Scheidegger >>> wrote: So, if I see that right, you will automatically genera

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2015-12-31 Thread Oded Gabbay
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > Am 30.12.2015 um 10:46 schrieb Oded Gabbay: >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Roland Scheidegger >> wrote: >>> >>> So, if I see that right, you will automatically generate binaries using >>> power8 instructions if compiled on power8

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2015-12-30 Thread Roland Scheidegger
Am 30.12.2015 um 10:46 schrieb Oded Gabbay: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Roland Scheidegger > wrote: >> >> So, if I see that right, you will automatically generate binaries using >> power8 instructions if compiled on power8 capable box, which then won't >> run on boxes not supporting power8

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2015-12-30 Thread Oded Gabbay
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Roland Scheidegger wrote: > > So, if I see that right, you will automatically generate binaries using > power8 instructions if compiled on power8 capable box, which then won't > run on boxes not supporting power8? Is that really what you want? > Maybe some runtime

Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2015-12-29 Thread Roland Scheidegger
So, if I see that right, you will automatically generate binaries using power8 instructions if compiled on power8 capable box, which then won't run on boxes not supporting power8? Is that really what you want? Maybe some runtime detection would be a good idea (though I don't know if anyone cares ab

[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/5] configure.ac: Detect if running on POWER8 arch

2015-12-29 Thread Oded Gabbay
To determine if we could use special POWER8 assembly directives, we first need to detect whether we are running on POWER8 architecture. This patch adds this detection to configure.ac and adds the necessary compilation flags accordingly. Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay --- configure.ac | 30 ++