e500 SPE support
Justin Hibbits
chmeeedalf at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 04:14:50 UTC 2015
I've been doing some work on the e500 Signal Processing Engine (SPE,
sort of like Altivec, only weirder), but have some questions on
implementation:
* This is mutually exclusive to Altivec, of course, because it shares
the GPRs, extending them to 64-bits, but only for SPE instructions.
Should the implementation be mutually exclusive, as well? Meaning, is
it better to have enable_spe()/save_spe() strewn throughout the code,
like is done with Altivec and FPU, or is it better to name them
*_vec(), and have a compile-time option of switching between Altivec
and SPE? The userland ABI would be different as well, which brings the
next question:
* Do we want another target, like how Linux does it (powerpcspe)? Or
have this as just a different build option in src.conf?
Suggestions are welcome and wanted.
- Justin
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