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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:55:12 -0700
From: Fangrui Song <i@...kray.me>
To: sidneym@...eaurora.org
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Hexagon DSP support
On 2020-04-15, sidneym@...eaurora.org wrote:
>Recently work has been done with clang/llvm/lld to extend support for
>Qualcomm's Hexagon DSP to a Linux target. At this point the publicly
>available LLVM tools are able to build and run Hexagon programs via QEMU.
>I've attached a patch that add the Hexagon bits to musl. The optimized
>routines have been purposely omitted to keep the size and complexity to a
>minimum.
>
>The changes are being mirrored here:
>https://github.com/quic/musl/tree/hexagon
>The QEMU mirror is here: https://github.com/quic/qemu
>A description of the assembly language is here:
>https://developer.qualcomm.com/download/hexagon/hexagon-v5x-programmers-refe
>rence-manual.pdf?referrer=node/6116
>
>The objective is to have enough freely available tools and libraries that
>any user could develop code for the DSP. The C-library is an important part
>of that stack and this patch is intended to start a discussion of what would
>need to happen in order for Hexagon to be added to the musl sources.
>
>I've tested this using libc-test (git://repo.or.cz/libc-test) and 56 errors
>are reported. The support for Hexagon in QEMU is on-going and while some of
>the errors (math) may be attributed to QEMU most also happen on hardware. A
>good chunk fail due to floating point exception status or precision.
>
>Beyond the above testing a large number of packages have been built using
>buildroot with our internal llvm tools. No issues outside of tweaks to
>avoid glibc assumptions were seen.
WoW
Any chance to move the psABI
(http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20190916/21516a52/attachment-0001.pdf),
as mentioned by https://reviews.llvm.org/D77021#1950279 to a more discoverable/official place :) ?
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