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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2011-03-02 09:43:25
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Maynard, Yes, please open a bug report and attach the stage 1 patch to it. New bugs for the other two stages also sounds good. J On Friday, February 25, 2011, Maynard Johnson wrote: > Hello, Julian, > I'm working on an update to valgrind to support IBM Power ISA 2.06 (i.e., > POWER7). There are ~200 new instructions, so this will be a major piece > of work -- and a lot of lines of code. I propose to you that I submit > the changes in 3 stages: > > 1. Support for instructions used by power7-tuned GLIBC libraries (36 > instructions) 2. Support for instructions used by LAMP stack programs, > built with -mcpu=power7 (~80 instructions) 3. Support for remaining ~80 > instructions > > I have stage 1 nearly complete. This is the most critical to be done > first, since developers working on RHEL6/POWER7 or SLES11-SP1/POWER7 will > automatically link with the power7-tuned libc (and perhaps others) when > they compile/link their programs. The new VSX instruction set is used > extensively in libc on POWER7, so there's very little a program can do > without libc using some VSX instructions. > > If this proposal is agreeable to you, I could open a bug report and attach > the first code patch and test patch when I'm ready. I would open new bugs > for each of the other two stages. > > Thanks. > > -Maynard > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data > in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving > IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether > physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and > gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Valgrind-developers mailing list > Val...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-developers |