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Re: Xeon Phi
- From: Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: pinskia at gmail dot com, "libffi-discuss\ at sourceware dot org" <libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 05:52:06 -0400
- Subject: Re: Xeon Phi
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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