ready implemented.
In addition, there's been talks with a different project that I might apply for.
I'll keep in touch if that changes, of course.
Cheers,
Nick Renieris.
Στις Πέμ, 17 Ιαν 2019 στις 11:29 π.μ., ο/η Stefan Hajnoczi
έγραψε:
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 1:29 AM Nick Renier
Right, that makes sense, thanks for the explanations. As someone with
very little x86 experience (zero experience from this perspective)
it's kind of daunting that I'd have to refactor all this stuff. All
these helpers via macros to get around C's 'minimalism' also seem like
something I'd have to g
Στις Σάβ, 5 Ιαν 2019 στις 12:14 π.μ., ο/η Richard Henderson
έγραψε:
> No, it's just calling conventions. And it could be worked around, but I think
> what we have is convenient enough.
>
> Especially since the sizes are encoded as (n+1)*8, which also shows the
> compiler that the size is positive
Ohh got it, thanks.
Στις Σάβ, 5 Ιαν 2019 στις 12:38 π.μ., ο/η Richard Henderson
έγραψε:
>
> On 1/5/19 8:33 AM, Nick Renieris wrote:
> > I know host ABI's can differ like that, but I don't understand why
> > that should matter. Everything (TCG compiler included) is co
Στις Παρ, 4 Ιαν 2019 στις 11:51 μ.μ., ο/η Richard Henderson
έγραψε:
> As an integer it is always passed by value. As a structure some host abis
> pass
> it by reference, and the TCG compiler doesn't know about that.
Ah so they modify it? If so it could surely be worked around with
explicit stac
Στις Σάβ, 29 Δεκ 2018 στις 10:24 μ.μ., ο/η Richard Henderson
έγραψε:
> I did have a beginner in mind when guessing 4 months. Don't take that as a
> fully speced out answer, but it may well be that full avx2 support cannot be
> done within the 3 months of gsoc. I would certainly expect avx512 to
Στις Παρ, 28 Δεκ 2018 στις 4:39 μ.μ., ο/η Peter Maydell
έγραψε:
> If your editor can't show multiple views onto one file with
> the same simplicity and UI as it has for multiple different
> files then I would suggest getting a better editor :-)
Apparently I just didn't know how to use my editor :
Maydell
έγραψε:
>
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 at 13:45, Nick Renieris wrote:
> > Also, I hope you meant four months for me, not for you - I'm
> > completely new to the QEMU codebase. I expect it will take me weeks
> > just to understand x86's 'translate.c' (who tho
ho thought it'd be a good
idea to put all this stuff in _one_ file?).
Another question, are there existing discussions about this
refactoring effort or specifically AVX? I asked a similar question on
IRC a few days ago and got no answers.
Στις Τετ, 26 Δεκ 2018 στις 4:12 π.μ., ο/η Richard Hend
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Στις Τετ, 26 Δεκ 2018 στις 3:07 π.μ., ο/η Richard Henderson
έγραψε:
>
> On 12/26/18 10:43 AM, Nick Renieris wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > What's the current status on AVX support for TCG? Is there anyone working
> > on it?
> > Is there interest for it?
>
com/watch?v=IYHTwnde0g8)
,yet there doesn't seem to be a front-end (except for VEX prefix
parsing) nor a backend for AVX, a pretty common x86 extension.
I'd appreciate any info on this,
Regards,
Nick Renieris.
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