geode-optimized glibc routines

Jordan Crouse jordan.crouse at amd.com
Tue Apr 10 10:44:19 EDT 2007


On 09/04/07 11:34 -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> >  One issue is what to use for the config triplet. I mentioned this
> >before and got no response, but I'm using i585-olpc-linux, which uses
> >olpc as the vendor field, which I believe is the correct way to do this.
> 
> I would have thought to specify the geode chip, so something like:
>   amdgeode700-unknown-linux
> since the code refers to the cpu instruction set rather than the motherboard.

I thought thats what the middle tuple is for.  This machine has an i586
instruction set - make no mistake about it.  The difference comes in the
slightly different timings and cache behavior on the Geode as opposed to
a reference Pentium machine.

Jordan





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