Support For Myriad ma2x8x CPUs Added To LLVM

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Support For Myriad ma2x8x CPUs Added To LLVM

03 October 2017, 06:20 AM

Phoronix: Support For Myriad ma2x8x CPUs Added To LLVM

The latest work hitting LLVM 6.0 is support for the Myriad ma2x8x class of processors and some other missing Myriad CPUs...

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03 October 2017, 10:03 AM

Looks like these are based on or at least compatible with Leon Sparc.... which means they are modernized 32bit Sparc (a rarity but nice to see). I wonder do these just use the coprocessor extension interface of Sparc to add SIMD etc.. or have the done something else under the hood?
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