VIA C3-2 support.
Falk Hueffner
falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de
Sun Feb 9 21:11:00 GMT 2003
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> writes:
> The Nehemiah (model 9) core of the VIA C3 is significantly different
> from the earlier C3s. It now has cmov (so we can generate i686 code
> for it now), and it dropped 3dnow, and implements SSE instead. This
> means that the existing -march=c3 will generate code that the C3-2
> cannot run (and vice versa)
BTW, the web page seems to indicate it has a special mode in which one
can access the RISC core directly ("AIS"). Does anybody know whether
there is documentation available about this? I really can't find any.
Maybe it would be worthwhile trying to generate these instructions
from gcc.
--
Falk
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