help testing a script to determine stage arches.

[loonylion]

Hi funtoo users,

Having lurked around the bug tracker for a while, I noticed the bug filed by user @kery about their westmere that isn't a westmere, which was subsequently mentioned by drobbins in the February newsletter. Having read an article elsewhere in the past about gcc sometimes doing funny things with -march and -mtune, it occurred to me to try to create a script that compares cpu flags with what gcc expects for each -march value used by funtoo stage3 archives, and recommends the most suitable one (i.e has the most matching instruction sets)

I have done this, creating a commandline python 3 script (be nice, my first major python project)

There was also going to be a webpage version, but it spontaneously, inexplicably and apparently unfixably broke for no apparent reason. (TECH DETAILS: PHP8 suddenly decided that the $_POST array key isn't defined, and that's now a fatal problem apparently. It is defined and there is data in it, which PHP is apparently ignoring. It had worked for a week beforehand.)

The Python CLI script (which directly reads /proc/cpuinfo and also queries the local gcc) is available on the bug tracker, bug FL-11330: https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-11330. I am willing to make it more public when I figure out the best/most appropriate way of doing so and after it's had a bit more testing/validation. Script should work on python >= 3.7, but has been tested on 3.9.

I'd like experienced Funtoo users to have a go at running it and check that the output is correct and sane for your CPU. If there's something not right could you please provide the following information from your test system:

Python version
Gcc version
cpu identification strings from /proc/cpuinfo (so I can look it up)
cpuflags from /proc/cpuinfo
script output
output of 'gcc -march=[whatever your cpu arch is according to gcc] -Q --help=target', trimmed to only include the top section (down to 'known assembler dialects')
what you believe the output should be
if funtoo is installed, what subarch is installed.
any other possibly useful information (like if you know your cpu is a weird one like the previously mentioned 'not a westmere'.)

 

Thanks in advance.