ARM cumunity,
We are design a SOC with Neon (r0p4) integrated. I saw the GCC have multiple options for Neon:
Known ARM FPUs (for use with the -mfpu= option): auto crypto-neon-fp-armv8 fp-armv8 fpv4-sp-d16 fpv5-d16 fpv5-sp-d16 neon neon-fp-armv8 neon-fp16 neon-vfpv3 neon-vfpv4 vfp vfp3 vfpv2 vfpv3 vfpv3-d16 vfpv3-d16-fp16 vfpv3-fp16 vfpv3xd vfpv3xd-fp16 vfpv4 vfpv4-d16
gcc version 8.3.0 (GNU Toolchain for the A-profile Architecture 8.3-2019.03 (arm-rel-8.36))
The SOC integration engineer also don't know how to choose from them for best match of our HW. Can you help us? Thanks in advance.
BR
/Li
Hi Li,if your SOC is based on Cortex-A53 then indeed neon-fp-armv8 is an appropriate -mfpu option. However, you can also use '-mcpu=cortex-a53 -mfpu=auto -mfloat-abi=hard', the float-abi might not be necessary if you are using a toolchain that has hard float on by default.Traditionally we enable almost all extensions for a cpu when you use -mcpu= option, this means that they will have the appropriate FPU set though you must set -mfpu=auto to guarantee that works! I believe that passing '-mcpu=cortex-a53 -mfpu=auto' is practically the same as passing '-march=armv8-a+crc -mfpu=neon-fp-armv8 -mtune=cortex-a53'.Hope this helps.Kind Regards,Andre