How do we target Athlon MP?

[Phil Edwards]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 12:31:40AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 03:46:31PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:22:04PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > > I see that config.gcc recognizes athlon_mp as a machine name, but config.sub
> > > won't accept it.  It later seems to look at a - instead of a _ but of course
> > > "athlon-mp" becomes "athlon-mp-pc-linux-gnu", and "mp" isn't a vendor.
> > > 
> > > What triplet should I be using?
> > 
> > At the moment there isn't one.  Use -march=athlon-mp?
> 
> Or ask someone to review:
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-08/msg00203.html
> and use --with-cpu=athlon-mp.

Okay:

Hey, would someone kindly review
   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-08/msg00203.html
so that we can configure using --with-cpu=athlon-mp?

:-)


> (Actually, you can do it now: athlon_mp-pc-linux-gnu should work.)

config.gcc knows about it, but the toplevel/FSF config.sub does not.
It accepts "athlon" and "athlon-*", but the "*" replaces "pc".  And then
"athlon-mp-linux-gnu" fails later tests.  The athlon_* isn't accepted at all.

I'm the middle of patching it to accept the underscore forms now, but the
--with-cpu thing should go in regardless, it's very nice IMHO.


Phil

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