Just looked at the mf16c work and wanted to mention Rahul clearly _was_ thinking about AMD users in that PR.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 3:46 PM kellen sunderland < [email protected]> wrote: > From my perspective we're developing a few features like mf16c and MKLDNN > integration specifically for Intel CPUs. It wouldn't hurt to make sure > those changes also run properly on AMD cpus. > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 3:38 PM Hao Jin <[email protected] wrote: > >> I'm a bit confused about why we need extra functionality tests just for >> AMD >> CPUs, aren't AMD CPUs supporting roughly the same instruction sets as the >> Intel ones? In the very impossible case that something working on Intel >> CPUs being not functioning on AMD CPUs (or vice versa), it would mostly >> likely be related to the underlying hardware implementation of the same >> ISA, to which we definitely do not have a good solution. So I don't think >> performing extra tests on functional aspect of the system on AMD CPUs is >> adding any values. >> Hao >> >> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:50 PM Seth, Manu <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > +1 >> > >> > On 11/29/18, 2:39 PM, "Alex Zai" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > What are people's thoughts on having AMD machines tested on the CI? >> AMD >> > machines are now available on AWS. >> > >> > Best, >> > Alex >> > >> > >> > >> >
