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Date:      Sat, 09 Sep 2017 21:05:57 +0200
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@vfemail.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FCP-100: armv7 plan
Message-ID:  <ingr-3d62-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrCwdVOGWunSAjuxHzGcqhuH24iRQg63rvPFXXSmm-C6Q__2138.43810274756$1504912296$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com> (Warner Losh's message of "Fri, 8 Sep 2017 17:11:04 -0600")
References:  <CANCZdfrCwdVOGWunSAjuxHzGcqhuH24iRQg63rvPFXXSmm-C6Q__2138.43810274756$1504912296$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>

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Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> This will serve as 'Last Call' for any objections to the plan to create an
> armv7 MACHINE_ARCH in FreeBSD, as documented in FCP-0100.
[...]

Some ports want NEON support but FCP-0100 is vague about FreeBSD-specific
differences between armv6 and armv7. Clang appears to enable NEON for all
*-gnueabi* targets but I have no clue about GCC. Apparently, Android and
Debian don't assume NEON on armv7.

related: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221898



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