Hello, Thomas! On 16 May 19:30, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2014 15:47:58 +0400, Kirill Yukhin <kirill.yuk...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > To support the offloading features for Intel's Xeon Phi cards > > we need to add a foreign library (liboffload) into the gcc repository. > > As written in the README, this library currently is specific to Intel > hardware (understandably, of course), and I assume also in the future is > to remain that way (?) -- should it thus get a more specific name in GCC, > than the generic liboffload? Yes, this library generates calls to Intel specific Coprocessor offload Interface (COI). I think, that name of library maybe changed, and when I’ll submit the patch We'll discuss it.
> > Additionally to that sources we going to add few headers [...] > > and couple of new sources > > For interfacing with GCC, presumably. You haven't stated it explicitly, > but do I assume right that this work will be going onto the > gomp-4_0-branch, integrated with the offloading work developed there, as > a plugin for libgomp? Not exactly. I was talking about COI emulator, which will allow to perform testing of offload w/o any external library dependency and HW. Libgomp <-> liboffload plug-in is also ready, but it need no such an approval, so it’ll be submitted as separate patch. -- Thanks, K > Grüße, > Thomas
