From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PRfdq-0003m5-2n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:42:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 358E6E0713; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF87E06FA for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF5D1B4164 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:42:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.184 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.184 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.444, BAYES_20=-0.74] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id liVsicZzmJHu for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C6B1B4017 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PRfd6-0006QO-O5 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:41:56 +0100 Received: from static24-72-114-21.yk.rev.accesscomm.ca ([24.72.114.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:41:56 +0100 Received: from dirtyepic by static24-72-114-21.yk.rev.accesscomm.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:41:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:46:47 -0600 Message-ID: <20101212004647.21f35de7@gentoo.org> References: <20101211185758.2f12bcdf@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/DZwNvXHWJIM3VXBfhhh16=c"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: static24-72-114-21.yk.rev.accesscomm.ca X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.1; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: 81b93b4a-b27c-434f-8bf5-0475bd648a66 X-Archives-Hash: 693bfddcf2458d31547c91ae1a9360a1 --Sig_/DZwNvXHWJIM3VXBfhhh16=c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:01:16 +0000 Matt Turner wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > [snip] >=20 > I agree that this could be better. To me, most of the problems with > this are due to users not knowing which of these should be set for > their particular CPU. >=20 > Instead of having defaults set by a profile, I'd like to figure out a > way we can have these flags set by default dependent on the user's > CPU. This might require some additional logic in portage; I don't > know. I think the fewer sources of magic USE flags the better. Maybe we could document how to figure out what instruction sets a processor supports in the handbook instead. --=20 fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime @ gentoo.org EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 06= 62 --Sig_/DZwNvXHWJIM3VXBfhhh16=c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk0Eb9cACgkQiqiDRvmkBmL2jwCgjFkEhhyrJ2etp6aiS0F+m4FW cr4AoLEsCshXnyXJWrmm+6KpAaZsX3/8 =r5yb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/DZwNvXHWJIM3VXBfhhh16=c--