[Info-vax] New VSI Community license PAK

[Dave Froble]

On 10/22/2020 12:04 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2020-10-22 kl. 17:59, skrev Craig A. Berry:
>>
>> On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> So the short version is:
>>>
>>> older Alpha => run VSI 8.4-2L1
>>> newer Alpha & Itanium => run VSI 8.4-2L2
>>
>> I don't believe there is a 8.4-2L2 on Itanium.  The only reason the
>> "L2" version exists for Alpha is for the performance boost on EV6 and
>> later and there is no equivalent scenario on IA64.
>>
>
> So:
>
> older Alpha & Itanium => run VSI 8.4-2L1
> newer Alpha  => run VSI 8.4-2L2

To be precise, all Alphas will run 2L1

Only EV6 and EV7 will run 2L2, as it is compiled to use EV6 instructions 
not available on pre-EV6 CPUs.

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