[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] swscale/ppc: Move VSX-using code to its own file

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 04 December 2018 at 08:10, Lauri Kasanen wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 03:21:30 +0100
> > Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 09:24:47AM +0200, Lauri Kasanen wrote:
> > > > Also ping on "swscale/output: VSX-optimize
> > > > nbps yuv2plane1".
> > > 
> > > This IIUC has not been tested on BE yet
> > > 
> > > my ppc emulation setup is a bit broken and my ppc hw ive not tried using
> > > since years and it was not in good shape last i used it.
> > > So i cant just quickly test this ...
> > 
> > Raptor offers free POWER9 VMs to open source projects. Since you're the
> > leader of ffmpeg, if you asked, I'm sure they'd give one or two for
> > ffmpeg build and fate testing.
> > 
> > Ref
> > https://mobile.twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1067018060777832449?p=v
> > https://mobile.twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1067029086273486848?p=v
> > 
> > "We offer free access to cloud VPS for libre software projects in
> > partnership with @Integricloud, would that help?"
> > 
> > "Contact sales at integricloud.com and tell them what you want to use a
> > VPS or two for. They will generally grant access to the resources."
> > 
> > (I'm developing on a POWER8 VM intended for devs, but ordered a
> > Blackbird from the cyber monday sale ;))
> 
> Red Hat also offers Power 8 VMs, both BE and LE, to open source projects:
> http://research.redhat.com/powerlinux-openpower-development-hosting/

these are more suggestions than i expected :)
but i just got cross build working again and i also just eliminated a
mysterious ld.so related segfault
ATM iam re rerunning fate with a freshly rebuilt qemu
(the past one had an issue with altivec)

so maybe ill be able to build and test ppc BE locally soon ... or maybe not;)

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