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|Description=The amd64-excavator subarch supports the AMD excavator microarchitecture, produced from 2015. It is the successor to the AMD Steamroller microarchitecture and will be the last revision of the 'bulldozer' family of processors, and is succeeded by [[Amd64-zen|AMD Ryzen processors]].
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The amd64-excavator subarch supports the [[Wikipedia:Excavator_(microarchitecture)|AMD excavator microarchitecture]], produced from 2015. It is the successor to the AMD Steamroller microarchitecture and will be the last revision of the 'bulldozer' family of processors, and will be succeeded by the 'Zen' processors (not yet released.)
Currently the following excavator CPUs are available:
Currently the following excavator CPUs are available:
* [http://www.anandtech.com/show/10009/amd-launches-excavator-on-desktop-the-65w-athlon-x4-845-for-70 AMD Athlon X4 845]
* Athlon X4 845 [http://www.anandtech.com/show/10009/amd-launches-excavator-on-desktop-the-65w-athlon-x4-845-for-70 AMD Athlon X4 845]
* Athlon X4 940
* Athlon X4 950
* Athlon X4 970
See [[Wikipedia:Excavator_(microarchitecture)]] for more information.


Amd64-excavator subarches are instruction-compatible with amd64-steamroller, but add new instructions over amd64-steamroller, including the MOVBE instruction.
Amd64-excavator subarches are instruction-compatible with amd64-steamroller, but add new instructions over amd64-steamroller, including the MOVBE instruction.

Revision as of 02:14, June 27, 2021

This section lists the CPU-optimized Funtoo Linux builds currently available for download for amd64-excavator. The amd64-excavator subarch supports the AMD excavator microarchitecture, produced from 2015. It is the successor to the AMD Steamroller microarchitecture and will be the last revision of the 'bulldozer' family of processors, and is succeeded by AMD Ryzen processors.

No downloadable stage builds are currently available for this sub-architecture.

The amd64-excavator subarch supports the AMD excavator microarchitecture, produced from 2015. It is the successor to the AMD Steamroller microarchitecture and will be the last revision of the 'bulldozer' family of processors, and is succeeded by AMD Ryzen processors..

Architecture and Optimization

The following settings are applied to all stages for this subarch via Funtoo subarch profiles:

CHOSTx86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS-march=bdver4 -O2 -pipe


Currently the following excavator CPUs are available:

See Wikipedia:Excavator_(microarchitecture) for more information.

Amd64-excavator subarches are instruction-compatible with amd64-steamroller, but add new instructions over amd64-steamroller, including the MOVBE instruction.