From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26049 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2014 09:52:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libffi-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libffi-discuss-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 26039 invoked by uid 89); 14 Oct 2014 09:52:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-qc0-f174.google.com Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com (HELO mail-qc0-f174.google.com) (209.85.216.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:52:10 +0000 Received: by mail-qc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id m20so6308650qcx.5 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:52:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=wgsRik6UndHWKT0xBbej2ipoeVLYKAQtFi3UyQbvXsk=; b=iVn01yfjUnhmvjYak80AFfUl8MOJjdjAhyMQ0a2gjAxL2N00URVGZN6wou39DMaeeT IH1i+s98Rp8DLLQ7UkGNyzddqwagO29zNCWqs4P+YoZkNoTK+2B1f1MJqWEOSAMnuPlp aMWwKWuDZA2WnOV0VqdsbKcm9w+LJUWoOyChaKYdCWBztpwvONQVmVfcVGLN6u3KI3gP YVN91BCn3x2ue79c6HmN19yNXxsRGoMTopfUbJsN6BFjeTnVKjFMlaAgz3RtKeV585ih GxuBxL/ZBmV4FPMSpqygAA7V7oEo8jniMEEctOc7EBt0Vu4OB4IH6uNjrrfYKLoCZNcH qHXQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlLALnyGIMJc5bRVnIRvHu9GI/oess3mCdXL5caBXFPJ6R8nh0HnhkEQOkAJlR5VWE4PJwc X-Received: by 10.140.30.53 with SMTP id c50mr6215549qgc.77.1413280328349; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (c-76-19-134-77.hsd1.ma.comcast.net. [76.19.134.77]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 12sm15032131qgt.6.2014.10.14.02.52.07 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:52:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Anthony Green To: Andrew Haley Cc: pinskia@gmail.com, "libffi-discuss\@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: Xeon Phi References: <543CE95A.9080409@redhat.com> <6442AADB-652F-443C-8875-258C0C1634D2@gmail.com> <543CEA22.9020302@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:52:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <543CEA22.9020302@redhat.com> (Andrew Haley's message of "Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:17:22 +0100") Message-ID: <87egubf06x.fsf@moxielogic.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014/txt/msg00119.txt.bz2 Andrew Haley writes: > On 14/10/14 10:16, pinskia@gmail.com wrote: > >> >>> On Oct 14, 2014, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Haley 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