[PATCH] Add DEC Alpha sum_s16 fast path

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 8 11:01:27 PST 2009


On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:59 PM, David Schleef <ds at entropywave.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 05:25:16PM -0500, Matt Turner wrote:
>> Lifted from Compaq's Compiler Writer's Guide for the Alpha 21264,
>> appendix B.
>>
>> http://h18000.www1.hp.com/cpq-alphaserver/technology/literature/cmpwrgd.pdf
>>
>
> Liboil patches should go in bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/index.cgi
> The x.org mailing list is definitely not the right place.

My apologies.

> Also, development on liboil has been suspended in favor of Orc
> (http://code.entropywave.com/projects/orc/).  Unfortunately, I
> doubt anyone will ever write an Alpha backend.

This is definitely not as clear as it needs to be. This information
definitely isn't on http://liboil.freedesktop.org/wiki/ where of all
places it should be.

Please update the liboil page to reflect this so others won't waste
time creating patches for a dead project.

Matt


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