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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Sparc SUN4V Niagara optimize memset/memcpy
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> I've sent a patch for scripts/config.sub to config-patches the other
> day, so that part of adding sparcv9v and sparc64v should show up
> eventually.

As a rule we don't put in new configuration support until the canonical
config.sub groks it.

> This adds the "sparcv9v-*" and "sparc64v-*" build targets, the
> optimized memcpy/memset for that platform, and the necessary Implies
> files.

I think this would be better done without Implies files.  Just use
machine=sparc/sparc32/sparcv9/sparcv9v and the right things should happen.


Thanks,
Roland