Re: Altivec tools?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

>With assembly is the way you want to do it anyway.  That is how they
>did the MMX versions, and I would actually try and port as much of
>that as possible.  Many of the macroized functions can possibly be
>implemented with altivec instructions or combinations instead of mmx
>instructions.  That way you get for free a lot of code above that
>just works.  It looks like someone has already started this for you:
>idctaltivec.c and idctaltivec.h?  They don't appear to be too
>complete, however, more like just a framework start.  Don't forget
>the -m7400.

I suggest you contact Paul Mackerras as he already did some altivec
stuffs in mpeg2dec.

Ben.