Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/7] tcg/ppc: Add vector opcodes

[Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>]

Ping.  Otherwise I'll include it in my next tcg pull.


r~

On 5/18/19 9:15 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Based-on: <20190518190157.21255-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Aka "tcg: misc gvec improvements".
> 
> Version 3 was last posted in March,
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg05859.html
> 
> Changes since v3:
>   * Add support for bitsel, with the vsx xxsel insn.
>   * Rely on the new relocation overflow handling, so
>     we don't require 3 insns for a vector load.
> 
> Changes since v2:
>   * Several generic tcg patches to improve dup vs dupi vs dupm.
>     In particular, if a global temp (like guest r10) is not in
>     a host register, we should duplicate from memory instead of
>     loading to an integer register, spilling to stack, loading
>     to a vector register, and then duplicating.
>   * I have more confidence that 32-bit ppc host should work
>     this time around.  No testing on that front yet, but I've
>     unified some code sequences with 64-bit ppc host.
>   * Base altivec now supports V128 only.  Moved V64 support to
>     Power7 (v2.06), which has 64-bit load/store.
>   * Dropped support for 64-bit vector multiply using Power8.
>     The expansion was too large compared to using integer regs.
> 
> 
> r~
> 
> 
> Richard Henderson (7):
>   tcg/ppc: Initial backend support for Altivec
>   tcg/ppc: Support vector shift by immediate
>   tcg/ppc: Support vector multiply
>   tcg/ppc: Support vector dup2
>   tcg/ppc: Update vector support to v2.06
>   tcg/ppc: Update vector support to v2.07
>   tcg/ppc: Update vector support to v3.00
> 
>  tcg/ppc/tcg-target.h     |   39 +-
>  tcg/ppc/tcg-target.opc.h |   11 +
>  tcg/ppc/tcg-target.inc.c | 1077 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  3 files changed, 1063 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tcg/ppc/tcg-target.opc.h
>