On 11/10/2017 06:52 AM, Philip Balister via USRP-users wrote:
> On 11/10/2017 06:41 AM, Philip Balister via USRP-users wrote:
>> On 11/10/2017 04:11 AM, Ron Economos via USRP-users wrote:
>>> I guess this is a little late, but you can pass in compiler flags on the
>>> command line with -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS. For example:
>>>
>>> cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="-mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon
>>> -mtune=cortex-a15" ../
>>
>> That would be the preferred way. The patch mentioned assumes that
>> anytime you are using a compiler with the neon.h header file, the SoC
>> you are compiling for has a neon unit. This is a bad assumption. There
>> are a few examples of SoC's around that do not have a neon unit. Now UHD
>> will generate neon and create runtime failures.
>>
>> Bottom line, in the ARM world, you cannot test compiler features to
>> figure out what features the runtime system has.
> 
> Also, another quick look suggests neon for aarch64 is no longer built.

Never mind. The code to allow the neon convertors to build for aarch64
never made it into uhd.

Philip


> 
> Philip
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>>
>> Philip
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Ron
>>>
>>> On 11/10/2017 12:07 AM, Gwenhael Goavec-Merou via USRP-users wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> maybe this : https://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd/pull/135
>>>> will help you
>>>>
>>>> Gwen
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:29:25 -0600
>>>> Kevin McGuire via USRP-users <usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was able to get the compiler flags passed in so that the check for
>>>>> the header arm_neon.h passes. I added it to the CMakeList root file
>>>>> with SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS, "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -mfloat-abi=softfp
>>>>> -mfpu=neon").
>>>>>
>>>>> Then, it would detect neon. However, I spent considerable time
>>>>> cleaning up whatever package problems I had since I ended up with a
>>>>> bunch of weird errors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Once I straightened my packages up (Debian), it is compiling with
>>>>> neon! And, hopefully, it will actually use the ARM neon routines.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Kevin McGuire <kmcg3...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have noticed that neon support for the converter is not enabling.
>>>>>> The CMakeError.log has this output. I am not certain as I am not
>>>>>> really familiar with ARM and NEON, but I checked my CPU and it does
>>>>>> support it. Also, the error message below is saying it is just a
>>>>>> matter of passing certain flags.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /mnt/extra/usr/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.8/include/arm_neon.h:32:2:
>>>>>> error: #error You must enable NEON instructions (e.g.
>>>>>> -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon) to use arm_neon.h
>>>>>>   #error You must enable NEON instructions (e.g. -mfloat-abi=softfp
>>>>>> -mfpu=neon) to use arm_neon.h
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Normally, I would just fix it myself and move forward, but me and
>>>>>> CMake mix like oil and water. It is kind of embarrassing but I
>>>>>> swear it never does what I want it do - such as adding a darn flag.
>>>>>> I even tried to force the options, lol, and all be danged if CMake
>>>>>> finds some way to error.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Will work on this tomorrow, but if anyone has a solution I am all
>>>>>> ears. If not then no problem and I will reply when I figure it out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This came about when I noticed what really seemed like abnormally
>>>>>> high CPU usage on my ARM code for a simple shuffling of data out of
>>>>>> the network packets. I traced what I felt like was the biggest
>>>>>> possible hot spot to the converter routine. Anyway, that is my plan
>>>>>> right now, to see if NEON might help if the converter is having to
>>>>>> swap byte order.
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