Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10.5 00/20] tcg: generic vector operations

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 January 2018 at 16:14, Richard Henderson
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Richard Henderson (21):
>   tcg: Allow multiple word entries into the constant pool
>   tcg: Add types and basic operations for host vectors
>   tcg: Standardize integral arguments to expanders
>   tcg: Add generic vector expanders
>   tcg: Loosen vec_gen_op* typecheck rules
>   tcg: Add generic vector ops for constant shifts
>   tcg: Add generic vector ops for comparisons
>   tcg: Add generic vector ops for multiplication
>   tcg: Add generic helpers for saturating arithmetic
>   tcg: Add generic vector helpers with a scalar operand
>   tcg/optimize: Handle vector opcodes during optimize
>   target/arm: Align vector registers
>   target/arm: Use vector infrastructure for aa64 add/sub/logic
>   target/arm: Use vector infrastructure for aa64 mov/not/neg
>   target/arm: Use vector infrastructure for aa64 dup/movi
>   target/arm: Use vector infrastructure for aa64 constant shifts
>   target/arm: Use vector infrastructure for aa64 compares
>   target/arm: Use vector infrastructure for aa64 multiplies
>   target/arm: Use vector infrastructure for aa64 orr/bic immediate
>   tcg/i386: Add vector operations
>   tcg/aarch64: Add vector operations

I've reviewed the arm frontend patches, at least. The tcg backend
stuff is a combination of huge patches and not an area of the
code I'm familiar with, so I've left those in the hope that
somebody else will look at them...

thanks
-- PMM