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-OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD
-version.
+OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library
-Added symbolic link to install a generic blas library that can be used
-by Octave and R.
+Added symbolic link to install a generic blas library that can be used by Octave and R.
+OpenBLAS has cpu specific targetted assembly code for speed optimisation.
+In most cases, the installation will detect the correct CPU architecture
+If you want to specify the architecture you can define the EXTRAPARAMS
+environmental variable with EXTRAPARAMS="TARGET=ZEN" (for AMD Ryzen CPUs)
-OpenBLAS has cpu specific targetted assembly code for speed
-optimisation.
-
-If running in a vm with QEMU cpu you need to specify a variable
-TARGET=cpuname to the script where cpuname is one from the list in the
-sourcecode file TargetList.txt
-
-examples are TARGET=NEHALEM for an Intel i7 or TARGET=ATHLON for AMD
-Athlon