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Re: Offload Library
- From: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, Kirill Yukhin <kirill dot yukhin at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:49:09 -0500
- Subject: Re: Offload Library
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- References: <20140516114748 dot GA28112 at msticlxl57 dot ims dot intel dot com> <CAGWvny==FW+2+mkrnHokuSXDS9o1MnCrKGuQfM7b=rojuCakEA at mail dot gmail dot com>
On 6/20/2014 1:46 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Kirill Yukhin <kirill.yukhin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear steering committee,
>>
>> To support the offloading features for Intel's Xeon Phi cards
>> we need to add a foreign library (liboffload) into the gcc repository.
>> README with build instructions is attached.
>>
>> I am also copy-pasting the header comment from one of the liboffload files.
>> The header shown below will be in all the source files in liboffload.
>>
>> Sources can be downloaded from [1].
>>
>> Additionally to that sources we going to add few headers (released under GPL v2.1 license)
>> and couple of new sources (license in the bottom of the message).
>>
>> Does this look OK?
> The GCC SC has decided to allow this library in the GCC sources.
>
> If the library is not going to be expanded to support all GPUs and
> offload targets, the library name should be more specific to Intel.
That matches what I understood and should have said Yes to.
> Thanks, David
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