Pocl's vector run-time math library supports the Power 7 VSX instructions.
Is Power 8 similar? If not, I might be able to assist extending this to
Power 8. However, this would only be a small part of supporting Power 8,
there are likely many other things to test before this becomes relevant.
-erik
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Pekka Jääskeläinen <
pekka.jaaskelai...@tut.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/12/2016 11:13 AM, Marmaduke Woodman wrote:
> > Has anyone experience using PoCL on an IBM POWER8 CPU?
>
> I don't know any who have tried it, but I know people that
> might be interested to use it, if someone started to maintain
> that port.
>
> If there's a solid LLVM backend (also with regard to codegen
> for vector instructions), it should be easy to get pocl working.
>
> BR,
> --
> Pekka
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