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diff --git a/isa-list b/isa-list new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a357bc --- /dev/null +++ b/isa-list @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +# Recognized fields: +# "Name": the isa extension name, the package will be ${Name}-support +# "Architecture": archs to build the package on, wildcards are ok +# "Test": how to detect it, defaults to return !__builtin_cpu_supports("$Name"); +# If the test program dies (SIGILL/etc), that's ok, the answer is "no". +# CFLAGS: passed to the C compiler, can include link-time flags too. +# Description: added to package's description. + +Name: SSE2 +Architecture: any-i386 +qemu-good: qemu-$DEB_HOST_ARCH -cpu "qemu$DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS" +qemu-bad: qemu-$DEB_HOST_ARCH -cpu "qemu$DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS",-see2,-sse3,-ssse3,-sse4.1,-sse4.2 +Description: + Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is a single instruction, multiple data + (SIMD) instruction set extension. + . + SSE2 was an incremental upgrade to SSE intended to fully replace the earlier + MMX instruction set. It is available on processors from Pentium 4 onward, + including all 64-bit capable ones, but not on Pentium 3, Athlon XP, Via C3, + Quark, or older processors. + +Name: SSE3 +Architecture: any-i386 any-amd64 +qemu-good: qemu-$DEB_HOST_ARCH -cpu "qemu$DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS" +qemu-bad: qemu-$DEB_HOST_ARCH -cpu "qemu$DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS",-sse3,-ssse3,-sse4.1,-sse4.2 +Description: + Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is a single instruction, multiple data + (SIMD) instruction set extension. + . + SSE3, also called PNI (Prescott New Instructions), is an incremental upgrade + to SSE2, adding a handful of new operations useful for processing media. It + is available on almost any 64-bit-capable processor except for some early + AMD models (Sledgehammer and Clawhammer), but is not available on most + 32-bit-only hardware. + +Name: SSE4.1 +Architecture: any-i386 any-amd64 +qemu-good: qemu-$DEB_HOST_ARCH -cpu "qemu$DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS" +qemu-bad: qemu-$DEB_HOST_ARCH -cpu "qemu$DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS",-sse4.1,-sse4.2 +Description: + Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is a single instruction, multiple data + (SIMD) instruction set extension. + . + SSE4.1 added a dot product instruction and additional integer instructions. + It is available on Intel processors since Penryn (circa 2008), but notably + not on anything AMD until the Bulldozer (15h, in 2011) and Jaguar (16h, in + 2013) families. + +Name: SSE4.2 +Architecture: any-i386 any-amd64 +qemu-good: qemu-$DEB_HOST_ARCH -cpu "qemu$DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS" +qemu-bad: qemu-$DEB_HOST_ARCH -cpu "qemu$DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS",-sse4.2 +Description: + SSE4.2 added string and text processing instructions that perform character + searches and comparison on two operands of 16 bytes at a time. It is + available on Intel processors since Nehalem (circa 2008), but notably not + on anything AMD until the Bulldozer (15h, in 2011) and Jaguar (16h, in + 2013) families. + +Name: altivec +Architecture: powerpc +Test: asm volatile("vsldoi %v1,%v1,%v1,0"); +Description: + AltiVec is a single-precision floating point and integer SIMD instruction + set. It is a standard part of the Power ISA v.2.03 specification. +# gcc-16 has __builtin_cpu_supports("altivec") but it's not reliable: silently +# gives wrong answer on qemu, wrong versions of glibc, non-glibc, etc. +# Thus, let's use SIGILL instead. + +Name: neon +Architecture: armhf +CFLAGS: -mfpu=neon +Test: asm volatile("VMUL.I16 q0,q0,q1"); +Description: + This is a mostly dummy package which checks for Neon and refuses to install + on unsupported hardware. + . + Neon, also known as MPE (Media Processing Engine) or Advanced SIMD, is a + combined 64- and 128-bit SIMD instruction set that provides standardised + acceleration for media and signal processing applications. It is available + on the vast majority of armhf devices but not guaranteed before the 64-bit + capable ARMv8. + +Name: ARMv6 +Architecture: armel +Test: return !need_armv_version(6); +Description: + The ARMv6 architecture (not to be confused with product family ARM6) uses + physically addressed cache, solving many cache aliasing problems and + reducing context switch overhead. Unaligned and mixed-endian data access is + supported. This architecture includes the first version of Thumb + technology. + . + This feature is not guaranteed by the architecture baseline, but is + available for newer armel machines in the ARM11 product family, including + ARM1136J(F)-S, ARM1156T2(F)-S, ARM1176JZ(F)-S, ARM1136EJ(F)-S, and + ARM11MPCore processors. Boards include the Raspberry Pi model 1 and + Raspberry Pi Zero. + +Name: ARMv6K +Architecture: armel +Test: return !(need_armv_version(6) && (getauxval(AT_HWCAP) & HWCAP_ARM_TLS)); +Description: + ARMv6k is a subarchitecture of ARMV6 adding Symmetric MultiProcessing + and Thread Local Storage instruction sets. It is not guaranteed by the + architecture baseline, but is available for newer armel machines in the + ARM11 product family; boards include the Raspberry Pi model 1 and + Raspberry Pi Zero. + +Name: ARMv7 +Architecture: armel +Test: return !need_armv_version(7); +Description: + ARMv7 (not to be confused with product family ARM7) includes Thumb-2 + technology, adding 32-bit instructions into compressed Thumb mode. It is + not guaranteed by the architecture baseline, but is available for newer + armel machines (including CPUs that support armhf) since the Cortex-A + product family, including Cortex-A5, -A7, -A8, -A9, -A12, -A15, and -A17 + processors. Boards include the Raspberry Pi 2. + +Name: ARMv8 +Architecture: armel armhf +Test: return !need_armv_version(8); +Description: + ARMv8 (not to be confused with product family ARM8) introduced a large + number of ISA enhancements. It is not guaranteed by the architecture + baseline, but is available for newer armel machines (including CPUs that + support armhf) since the Cortex-A product family, including Cortex-A32, as + well as all arm64 processors. Boards include the Raspberry Pi 3 and 4. + +Name: VFP +Architecture: armel +Test: return !(getauxval(AT_HWCAP) & HWCAP_ARM_VFP) +Description: + VFP (Vector Floating Point) technology is a floating-point unit (FPU) + coprocessor extension to the ARM architecture. It provides single- and + double-precision floating-point computation fully compliant with IEEE + 754-1985. + +Name: VFPv2 +Architecture: armel +Test: return !(need_armv_version(5) && (getauxval(AT_HWCAP) & HWCAP_ARM_VFP)) +Description: + VFP (Vector Floating Point) technology is a floating-point unit (FPU) + coprocessor extension to the ARM architecture. It provides single- and + double-precision floating-point computation fully compliant with IEEE + 754-1985. + . + VFPv2 has 16 64-bit FPU registers. It is available for some ARMv5 and + all ARMv6 cores. + +Name: VFPv3 +Architecture: armel +Test: return !(getauxval(AT_HWCAP) & HWCAP_ARM_VFPv3) +Description: + VFP (Vector Floating Point) technology is a floating-point unit (FPU) + coprocessor extension to the ARM architecture. It provides single- and + double-precision floating-point computation fully compliant with IEEE + 754-1985. + . + VFPv3 has 32 64-bit FPU registers as standard, adds VCVT instructions to + convert between scalar, float, and double, and adds immediate mode to VMOV, + allowing constants to be loaded into FPU registers. It is available on most + Cortex-A8 and -A9 ARMv7 processors. |