Intel MPX (Skylake ISA) support?

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:18:09AM +0200, Carsten Mattner wrote:
> More details I was able to find with links to hopefully descriptive
> documentation. IIUC developers have been using a well known
> Intel CPU simulator, but I'm in the dark there.
SDE does not run on FreeBSD, and setting up Linux (or Windows) for this
is out of question, at least for me.

> 
> gcc: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Intel%20MPX%20support%20in%20the%20GCC%20compiler
> 
> glibc:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00491.html
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00543.html
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00605.html

I can google as well. I have no intend of reverse-engineering Linux code
to get basic information about CPU core.

Why are you so insisted on the non-released feature, which seemingly
still lacks complete documentation ? Yes, something can be done even
now, but that requires a lot of efforts, backed by a huge belief into
the world-shaking nature of the MPX and inability to wait even a bit to
get hands on it. I do not have that urge, and do not understand why do
you try to trick others into it. Will you provide the hardware to the
developers when it become generally avaiable ?

FWIW, it would be very useful if Jim Harris chimed in.
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