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Michael
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On Mon, 05 Dec 2022 13:53:49 +0100, Christian Melki <christian.melki@t2data.com> wrote:
> Even if it looks like PPC is a dying breed,
> add an altivec knob for PPC AltiVec/VMX/Velocity engine
> tuning. Altivec is present in more modern designs.
> Afaiu, Most designs that are >= Power ISA v.2.03
> According to Wikipedia:
>
> Motorola/Freescale
> MPC7400
> MPC7410
> MPC7450
> MPC7445/7455
> MPC7447/7447A/7457
> MPC7448
> MPC8641/8641D
> MPC8640/8640D
> MPC8610
> T2081/T2080
> T4080/T4160/T4240
> B4420/B4860
>
> IBM
> PowerPC 970
> PowerPC 970FX
> PowerPC 970MP
> Xenon
> Cell B.E.
> PowerXCell 8i
> POWER6/POWER6+
> POWER7/POWER7+
> POWER8
> POWER9
> Power10
>
> P.A. Semi
> PA6T
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Melki <christian.melki@t2data.com>
> Message-Id: <20221201084242.3929035-1-christian.melki@t2data.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
>
> diff --git a/platforms/architecture.in b/platforms/architecture.in
> index 10df8deb2aec..06ed36dde613 100644
> --- a/platforms/architecture.in
> +++ b/platforms/architecture.in
> @@ -269,6 +269,18 @@ config ARCH_ARMV7_NEON
> bool
> default ARCH_ARM_NEON if ARCH_ARM
>
> +#
> +# PPC vector instructions
> +#
> +config ARCH_PPC_ALTIVEC
> + bool
> + prompt "AltiVec/VMX/Velocity Engine"
> + depends on ARCH_PPC
> + help
> + This enables optimizations corresponding to single precision
> + floating point and integer SIMD instructions on PPC processors.
> + This is present on more modern CPUs.
> +
> #
> # hardware / software floating point
> #