Re: [Nasm-devel] Xeon Phi

[Peter J. <pe...@to...>]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, William Cockshott wrote:
> Hi there I am the chief maintainer of the Vector Pascal compiler which uses Nasm as its
> preferred back end. I am keen to have a version of the compiler out for the Xeon Phi as
> soon as I can get hold of a Xeon Phi board. It would be a big help if the Nasm team
> plan to release a Xeon Phi upgrade since otherwise I will be forced into the
> undocumented purgatory of the Gnu Assembler.

I've been looking at adding support for Knights Corner (KNC, Xeon Phi) to 
Yasm, but when I asked Intel about it, the response I received was that 
Intel has not committed to maintaining the instruction encodings.  It's 
hard to know if they can't commit right now because that triggers 
cross-licensing arrangements, or whether they really plan on changing the 
encodings in the near future.

As far as I can tell, GAS doesn't even have support for it yet (at least 
in official CVS).

-Peter