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<div>We have no one on the project yet working on PPC. Is the board/platform supported by the upstream kernel? If not do you have a public kernel tree for the board?</div>
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<div>If you can point us to the kernel and the config to build we can help get you set up.</div>
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<div>Then just send patches to this email for integration.</div>
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<div>It would be great to add PPC support and testing to the project!</div>
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<div>Mark</div>
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<div style="font-size:75%; color:#575757">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S™III, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</div>
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From: S Madhu <smadhu2048@gmail.com> <br>
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To: LLVMLinux@lists.linuxfoundation.org <br>
Subject: [llvmlinux] PowerPC builds <br>
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<div>is anybody trying PowerPC builds ? I am specifically looking at Freescale's e5500/6500 family or IBM's Power 7 variant. I run a research program developing a Power compatible processor ( along withna virtualized linux running on top of secure hypervisor) and
we are at a stage where we need to start working on the tool chain. Figured getting our hands dirty on Clang now would help us get used to it, since clang looks like a better option than Gcc for us. If nobody is doing it, we can give it a shot since we have
both HW and free labor in the form of my grad students !
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<div>if the processor reaches a usable form, we will be releasing it into open source. It is a 64 bit design with multiple issue and Multi threading, so should match a core i5 in perf if tuned well. A big if there I must admit ! <span></span>Supports 256 bit
simd instructions also. Single core initially, may go to 4/8 if our funding holds up or if the open source community takes it up.
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<div>Madhu</div>
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