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From: Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: pinskia@gmail.com,
	 "libffi-discuss\@sourceware.org" <libffi-discuss@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Xeon Phi
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egubf06x.fsf@moxielogic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <543CEA22.9020302@redhat.com> (Andrew Haley's message of "Tue, 14	Oct 2014 10:17:22 +0100")

Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:

> On 14/10/14 10:16, pinskia@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> 
>>> On Oct 14, 2014, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's the status of Xeon Phi support?  There seem to be some packages on the
>>> Interweb, but I don't see anything in libffi git.
>> 
>> Xeon phi is just x86_64 linux. 
>
> No it's not.  There is a completely different FPU and a different ABI.

Yes, there's no SSE instructions, and more...

Somebody needs to find the relevant changes in here and submit them:
https://github.com/bpartridge/xeon_phi_ctypes/tree/master/libffi

AG


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-14  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-14  9:14 Andrew Haley
2014-10-14  9:16 ` pinskia
2014-10-14  9:17   ` Andrew Haley
2014-10-14  9:52     ` Anthony Green [this message]
2014-10-14 10:08     ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-10-14 10:23       ` Andrew Haley

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