MSA is an optional extension to MIPSr4 (I think r4 did not exist either, r5
does).  Octeon 3 implements r5 but not MSA.  It does have the
virtualization extension though.

After octeon 3, cavium/marvell is no longer working on MIPS cores.  I dont
know of any other mainstream source for MIPS cores either.

Thanks,
Andrew

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 9:16 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 10:35 AM Andrew Pinski <pins...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Octeon 2 does not have MSA. Octeon 2 does not have any SIMD extensions
> implemented.  Octeon 2 does not even have a floating point unit.
> > MSA is newer than MIPS64r2/3.
>
> Thanks Andrew. It looks like I hit another dead end.
>
> I'll look for newer hardware. Does MIPS64r4 sound about right? (I wish
> MIPS made this easy like Intel and ARM).
>
> Jeff
>
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