[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] powerpc --> ppc

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 05:02:55PM +0100, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > There is some inconsistency in the way we handle the naming of the
> > PowerPC/PPC architecture right now.  Sometimes it is powerpc, sometimes
> > ppc.  I suggest we go for ppc, which we also use as subdirectory name.
> > $attached implements this and will help me with some build system
> > changes in the future.
> 
> I support this change.

Luca, what do you say?

> > Another thing I noticed: What is ARCH_POWERPC_405?  It is never set...
> 
> This was added by this _very old_ commit:
> 
> commit 45c7805311002362b42e98a664419bfe8ff23931
> Author: bellard <bellard at 9553f0bf-9b14-0410-a0b8-cfaf0461ba5b>
> Date:   Wed Jun 5 14:25:06 2002 +0000
> 
>     removed unused code - began to merge alpha specific stuff - added
> mac macros for suitable CPUs
> 
>     git-svn-id: file:///var/local/repositories/ffmpeg/trunk at 667
> 9553f0bf-9b14-0410-a0b8-cfaf0461ba5b

That's just the one in simple_idct.c, the one in ppc/mathops.h is from
September 2006.

> I don't think there's many people who actively use PowerPC 405 besides
> people who hack their DreamBox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreambox)
> and students (since the core is freely available), so I don't care if
> ever you want to remove the core relative to it.

Luca, what do you say?

Diego