[LLVMdev] Support for PPC 440/450

[Hal Finkel]

I've attached the latest version of my patch to support the PPC 440/450
cores in the PowerPC backend.

I've also included a small patch to clang so that it will recognize
-target-cpu 440 and pass that through to the code generator (and
assembler).

Thanks in advance,
Hal

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 14:14 -0700, Jakob Stoklund Olesen wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Hal Finkel wrote:
> 
> > I've been working on adding support for the PPC 440/450 "embedded" cores
> > to the PowerPC backend. These are used on IBM's Blue Gene L and P
> > supercomputers, but are also used in other environments (like on the
> > Xilinx Virtex-5). Here is my first patch. I'm new to LLVM, and so I
> > apologize if this is the wrong way to do this [the online docs seem to
> > imply that a patch should be sent to a mailing list, although does not
> > specify which one, should it go to the bug tracker instead?].
> 
> llvm-commits is the place to send your patches.
> 
> > I've tried to touch as little of the existing code as possible. There
> > are some other changes which should probably be made, but would require
> > touching the existing PowerPC code.
> 
> This patch looks fine to me, but I am missing some test cases.
> 
> There should at least be a test case just sending some code through this scheduler.
> 
> > For example, the general load/store
> > itinerary should really be split into a general load and general store.
> > Also, on the so-called "Book E" embedded PPC cores, the sync instruction
> > is called msync (same opcode, different name). I'm not sure what the
> > best way of doing a predicate-base asm name is.
> 
> I am not sure how to do that.  X86 has alternative syntaxes, but that is way overkill.
> 
> > I'm just about done with a patch to add support for the FP2 (aka Double
> > Hummer) v2f64 vector instruction set, but I figured that it would be
> > good to make that a separate patch.
> 
> Definitely.
> 
> /jakob
> 

-- 
Hal Finkel
Postdoctoral Appointee
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory
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