Re: ARM 3D support was Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

2011-08-23 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 08/23/2011 07:01 PM, omall...@msu.edu wrote: Quoting Gordan Bobic : Unfortunately there is no way I could make it, but on the subject of 3D support on ARM, Luke recently mentioned something that initially seemed outlandish but upon closer examination doesn't seem like a bad idea. As w

Re: [fedora-arm] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

2011-08-23 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:11:34 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:15:34PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, Following on from the founding of the cross-distro ARM mailing list, I'd like to propose an ARM summit at this year's Linux Plumbers conference [1]. I'm hoping fo

Re: Is Sun putting much effort into supporting the gcc/binutils toolchain on sparc64 ?

2007-09-14 Thread Gordan Bobic
Joe Buck wrote: I have a full rack of Niagara systems that proves that Sun cares to some extent. I get early hardware access and documentation access, plus engineers to talk to and ask questions of. With all due respect to your incredible efforts, this amounts to crumbs from their table. I

Re: Is Sun putting much effort into supporting the gcc/binutils toolchain on sparc64 ?

2007-09-12 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Andrew Walrond wrote: David Miller wrote: So no, Sun really isn't helping with any actual development. I don't know what to say. Incredible work David, but quite frankly, I'm speechless. I'm sure I can't be the only hardware purchaser asking these questions. I really l

Re: Implementing VMX128 AltiVec Variant

2007-08-22 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > With the modifications I made, GCC still compiled fine. However, > > libgcc and libstdc++ DO still get build with the missing instructions > > (according to objdump -D). Why is that? Is that a consequence of the > > ADA files? Or something else?

Re: Implementing VMX128 AltiVec Variant

2007-08-22 Thread Gordan Bobic
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: With the modifications I made, GCC still compiled fine. However, libgcc and libstdc++ DO still get build with the missing instructions (according to objdump -D). Why is that? Is that a consequence of the ADA files? Or something else? Where should I lo

Re: Implementing VMX128 AltiVec Variant

2007-08-21 Thread Gordan Bobic
Ian Lance Taylor wrote: Gordan Bobic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: These are the only place I found references to them, apart from the files in the gcc/ada directory: gcc/ada/g-alveop.adb gcc/ada/g-alveop.ads gcc/ada/g-alleve.adb gcc/ada/g-alleve.ads I ignored these - I am making

Implementing VMX128 AltiVec Variant

2007-08-21 Thread Gordan Bobic
Hi, For those of you who don't know, VMX128 is a slightly modified version of VMX (AltiVec) in the Xenon processor (i.e. XBox 360). I'm trying to implement support for this in GCC. The principal difference that makes -maltivec not work is that some VMX instructions are missing. Namely, the f