Hi Nitesh,

I don't think there's any good documentation. This may help with Arm SVE
support, but it's from a while ago. Things have changed since 2018.
https://community.arm.com/arm-research/b/articles/posts/simulating-the-arm-sve-with-gem5

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 2:27 AM Nitesh Narayana GS <nit...@ac.upc.edu>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> Thanks for the information. I will check the code base for that. Do you
> have any suggestions for the documentation regarding it ?
>
>
> Regards
> Nitesh
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 17:53, Jason Lowe-Power <ja...@lowepower.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> For Arm, gem5 has SVE support and (some/most/all?) of the NEON
>> instructions. For x86, we support most 128-bit SIMD instructions, but very
>> few or no 256-bit or 512-bit SIMD instructions. I have heard of
>> forks/groups that have implemented many of the x86 vector instructions, and
>> I have heard that RISC-V vector extensions have been implemented. However,
>> these implementations have not been made public or have not been pushed
>> upstream.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 4:08 AM nitesh--- via gem5-users <
>> gem5-users@gem5.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am working on understanding VPUs and vector instructions, and am a bit
>>> new to the gem5 environment. I aI wanted to know if there is any official
>>> update on the vector instruction support for gem5 x86 and ARM? I see there
>>> are some forked versions available in the community but I am skeptical
>>> about their stability and version. Would like to know if anyone recommends
>>> any such version.
>>>
>>> I also see In this link
>>> https://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/architecture_support/
>>> that gem5 has support for SSE in x86 but see little documentation regarding
>>> that. Also no mention of ARM vector instruction support.
>>>
>>> Sorry if I am wrong regarding the things I have mentioned.
>>>
>>> So any guidance, help, or advice regarding this will be great!!
>>>
>>> Thanks
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