Minutes & Actions: Toolchain Working Group meeting of Feb 28 & Mar 02, 2011

[Michael Hope]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Steev Klimaszewski
<steev at genesi-usa.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Michael Hope <michael.hope at linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Vandervennet Yves-R55763
>> <R55763 at freescale.com> wrote:
>>> Hi TC working group,
>>>                 May I ask what the following means?
>>>
>>> “724987: discourage use of NEON on the A8”
>>
>> Hi Yves.  This is an optimisation that discourages GCC from using
>> certain NEON instructions that are expensive on the A8 and better done
>> through core registers.  It doesn't discourage NEON in general, nor
>> does it mean we have a policy of discouraging NEON on that core.
>>
>> Hope that answers your question,
>>
>> -- Michael
>>
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>
> Can someone update that bug to point to whatever it is supposed to be
> pointing to?  When I click the lp link it just pops up a dialog saying
> 'No such product series: 4.5,revno=99353'

Hi Steev.  Unfortunately it's broken and has to be that way.  This
field is used by our patch tracker to link the upstream status to a
revision.  The format is official way to link to a particular revision
in bzr but unfortunately Launchpad doesn't parse it.

-- Michael