Re: Need kernel patch to compile with Intel compiler

[Chris Friesen]

Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> The kernel is designed to be compiled with the GNU 'C' compler
> supplied with every distribution. It uses a lot of __asm__()
> statements and other GNU-specific constructions.

Yep.  And Intel added a bunch of them to their compiler so that they 
could build a kernel with it.

> Why would you even attempt to convert the kernel sources to
> be compiled with some other tools?

The Intel compiler is quite good at optimizing for their processors (and 
ironically for AMD ones as well).  However, I think that a lot of the 
gains come from the vectorizer, which of course can't be used with 
kernel code.

Chris
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