Safe cflags for piledriver?

Ion Silverbolt · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 203

I just purchased a new laptop with an AMD A6 APU. From what I can tell, it uses the new piledriver core. Laptop is here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834312242

Information is kind of vague about compile options at this point. Will bdver2 work if I'm using gcc-7.2? Or is this processor lacking options that would prevent compiling with that march setting as compared to a desktop APU of the same core?

I may just use march=native and compile everything with the laptop when I receive it, but ideally, I'd rather compile everything from my phenom 2 6-core desktop. Anyone have some good advice about how to go forward? I'm going to use gcc-4.7 without lto. Thanks.

chithanh · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 1:47 am Post subject: Re: Safe cflags for piledriver?

-march=bdver2 is correct.
Packages which were built for the Phenom II can also be used on the A6. However it is best to disable 3dnow there, as the A6 does not support it natively and has to emulate via microcode.

Ion Silverbolt · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 203

I tried compiling the binaries for my laptop on my phenom 2 desktop using bdver2 and -mno-3dnow. I got a lot of illegal instruction errors. Evidently there is enough of a difference to cause issue.

Oddly, it was never an issue using btver1 when I was making binaries for my e450 netbook.

Anyway, thanks for trying to help. I'll probably just use the native binaries from my desktop, or maybe even compile from the laptop if it runs cool enough.

chithanh · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:07 am Post subject:

Ion Silverbolt · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 203

Thanks. I'll just use distcc.