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Re: Old PPC patch - 405F, 440 support
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:24:32AM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> > At this time I am looking for comments, not
> > approval - anything from "it's not necessary to recognize these as
> > separate CPUs" to "you need to patch here, here, and here too" would
> > be helpful.
...
> Other than providing a ppc405fp entry in the
> processor_target_table for a ppc405 with floating point support, the rest
> of the patch looks like someone creating dummy entries without any
> information so they can say "gcc -mcpu=440" and feel good.
Thanks. From what you say, then, the patch does no particular good.
Right now, I don't have time or resources to implement proper support
for these CPUs; I will simply discard the changes. I might come back
to this later -- in the abstract, assuming proper implementation, are
-mcpu=440 and/or =405f desirable features?
zw