452604 – CPU_FEATURES: move USE="mmx sse etc..." CPU features to USE expanded variable

Bug 452604 - CPU_FEATURES: move USE="mmx sse etc..." CPU features to USE expanded variable

Summary: CPU_FEATURES: move USE="mmx sse etc..." CPU features to USE expanded variable

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2013-01-16 20:47 UTC by Alexander Weber
Modified:	2013-01-25 05:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Alexander Weber 2013-01-16 20:47:14 UTC

It would be nice to goup and set cpu features as CPU_FEATURES="mmx sse sse2".
Can you please move the USE="mmx sse sse2" and others to an expanded use?
The second idea is to implement CPU_FEATURES="native" that auto-detects the features supported by local /proc/cpuinfo.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-01-16 21:46:56 UTC

don't know why this was bounced to me ...

i think this came up on gentoo-dev at some point.  if it didn't, that would be the place to post this idea.

CPU_FEATURES="native" might require PMS support

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-01-25 05:38:49 UTC

and it has indeed been argued a couple of times.  suggest you review those threads in the archives first before starting a new one so we don't waste time rehashing the same crap.

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding CPUFLAGS USE_EXPAND variable to the profiles
From: Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>
  To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Date: 07.07.2006 10:20

[gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags
From: Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org>
  To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Date: 06.07.2006 06:52