Re: [rfc] [2/9] Cell multi-arch: Implement tdesc <compatible> feature for Cell

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 05:51:02PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> when checking in the Cell/B.E. patches I ran into a small conflict with
> a change you committed as part of ARM VFP / NEON support.  Basically,
> I need to use a different set of expedited registers with Cell/B.E.
> than with other PowerPC sub-platforms, and your patch to the features
> Makefile removed the capability for specifying that:
> 
> -	echo "expedite:$($*-expedite)" >> $(outdir)/$*.tmp
> +	echo "expedite:$($(firstword $(subst -, ,$(notdir $*)))-expedite)" >> $(outdir)/$*.tmp
> 
> To resolve this conflict, I've now added back that capability, but
> optionally: if there is an -expedite variable corresponding to the
> full platform string, use that; otherwise fall back to the -expedite
> variable for the core architecture.
> 
> Does this look OK to you?  If you prefer a different solution, please
> let me know, I'll be happy to fix it ...

This looks fine, thanks!  All I wanted to do was reduce the
repitition; I regularly used to get conflicts on this chunk of
Makefile, and adding a new register set shouldn't really require
touching it.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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