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RISC-V/AArch64: disable CPU features detection

Open mshabunin opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

This PR is the first step in fixing current issues with NEON/RVV, FP16, BF16 and other CPU features on AArch64 and RISC-V platforms.

On AArch64 and RISC-V platforms we usually have the platform set by default in the toolchain when we compile it or in the cmake toolchain file or in CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS by user. Then, there are two ways to set platform options: a) "-mcpu=<some_cpu>" ; b) "-march=" (e.g. "rv64gcv"). Furthermore, there are no similar "levels" of optimizations as for x86_64, instead we have features (RVV, FP16,...) which can be enabled or disabled. So, for example, if a user has "rv64gc" set by the toolchain and we want to enable RVV. Then we need to somehow parse their current feature set and append "v" (vector optimizations) to this string. This task is quite hard and the whole procedure is prone to errors.

I propose to use "CPU_BASELINE=DETECT" by default on AArch64 and RISC-V platforms. And somehow remove other features or make them read-only/detect-only, so that OpenCV wouldn't add any extra "-march" flags to the default configuration. We would rely only on the flags provided by the compiler and cmake toolchain file. We can have some predefined configurations in our cmake toolchain files.

mshabunin avatar Jul 12 '24 10:07 mshabunin