Linux on Power Porting Guide
Vector Intrinsics
System Software Work Group
syssw-chair@openpowerfoundation.org
OpenPOWER Foundation
2017
OpenPOWER Foundation
Revision 1.0
OpenPOWER
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The goal of this project is to provide functional equivalents of the
Intel MMX, SSE, and AVX intrinsic functions, that are commonly used in Linux
applications, and make them (or equivalents) available for the PowerPC64LE
platform.
This document is a Non-standard Track, Work Group Note work product owned by the
System Software Workgroup and handled in compliance with the requirements outlined in the
OpenPOWER Foundation Work Group (WG) Process document. It was
created using the Master Template Guide version 0.9.5. Comments,
questions, etc. can be submitted to the public mailing list for this document at
syssw-programming-guides@mailinglist.openpowerfoundation.org.
2018-3-14
Revision 1.0 - Minor updates. Published version.
2017-10-30
Revision 0.3 - Updates to describe issues associated with larger vector sizes
and proposed solutions.
2017-09-14
Revision 0.2 - Miscellaneous correction for spelling, grammar and punctuation.
2017-07-26
Revision 0.1 - initial draft from Steve Munroe