From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44759) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W61iV-0003zR-JP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:36:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W61iL-0006I5-E1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:35:55 -0500 Received: from mail-qa0-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c00::22b]:62306) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W61iL-0006Gq-AN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:35:45 -0500 Received: by mail-qa0-f43.google.com with SMTP id o15so832157qap.30 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:35:44 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <52E0016D.801@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:35:41 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Intel AVX instructions List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Xin Tong , QEMU Developers , Stefan Hajnoczi Il 22/01/2014 17:27, Xin Tong ha scritto: > Intel AVX instructions have been out for some time since sandy-bridge. > Is there value to support it in QEMU. I am thinking abut a google > summer of code this year to bring support for AVX/AVX2.0 to QEMU. Yes, that can be a nice project indeed! Of course you are welcome to contribute to QEMU even before we submit our GSoC application. For example, it's possible to add XSAVE/XRSTOR support even without AVX support, even though there is no real processors with this combination. Paolo