LLVM Begins Preparing For Intel Sierra Forest & Grand Ridge CPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM Begins Preparing For Intel Sierra Forest & Grand Ridge CPUs

Last week saw Intel sending out new GCC compiler patches for adding the "Sierra Forest" CPU target and the number of new x86_64 instructions it's adding. Those GCC patches follow Intel publishing an updated programming reference manual where they detailed these new instructions coming for Sierra Forest Xeon CPUs as well as Grand Ridge. Now on the LLVM compiler side, they too have begun landing new patches for these new Intel instructions...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-MSRLIST-WRMSRNS

[coder]

I had a LOL at the first sentence of the last paragraph:

Last month's Intel programming reference manual update also noted several more instructions coming with Sierra Forest and Ridge Ridge,

[brad0]

Oh look more "support" diffs that do diddly-squat.