[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] mediatek: enable support for vfpv4 and neon

[John Crispin]

On 19/12/2016 14:56, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Sunday, December 11, 2016 9:13:56 AM CET John Crispin wrote:
>>
>> On 25/11/2016 20:57, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>>> While researching for the armvirt target, I looked at the
>>> existing arm platforms. It turns out that the mediatek target
>>> with its sole MT7623N/A chip is sold as a "highly integrated
>>> multimedia network router system-on-chip". To that end, it
>>> lists support for the "NEON multimedia processing engine with
>>> SIMDv2 / VFPv4 ISA support".
>>>
>>> <http://topics.mediatek.com/en/products/connectivity/wifi/home-network/wifi-ap/mt7623na/>
>>>
>>> So this patch enables the CPU_SUBTYPE to use this information.
>>> This should have the nice side effect that LEDE's phase2 builders
>>> no longer need to built a separate "cortex-a7" target, so this
>>> should free up some resources.
>>>
>>> Cc: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey at gmail.com>
>>
>> sorry took me ages to build/boot an image. merged into my staging tree
>> just now
> 
> Looks like this was silently dropped? Doesn't the CPU like NEON/VFPV4
> or was the patch lost in a rebase?
> 
> Regards,
> Christian
> 


not fully lost but stuck on opne of my test trees on my HDD. i have just
moved it over to my staging tree.

	John