Introduced in 1992, the Alpha was a 64-bit RISC processor designed
to replace the VAX CISC machines sold by Digital Equipment Corporation.
After Digital was acquired by Compaq in 1998 -- who themselves would be
later purchased by Hewlett-Packard, the architecture was phased out over
the following decade. It became effectively defunct in 2007, the last
publicly available processor being the Alpha 21364.
FFmpeg has not added any DSP code for this architecture since lowres2
was introduced in 2012, and it is more than unlikely someone still wishes
to maintain it.
Remove the DSP and support code.
Signed-off-by: Vittorio Giovara <vittorio.giovara@gmail.com>
This is more spec-compliant because it does not rely
on dead-code elimination by the compiler. Especially
MSVC has problems with this, as can be seen in
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2022-May/296373.html
or
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2022-May/297022.html
This commit does not eliminate every instance where we rely
on dead code elimination: It only tackles branching to
the initialization of arch-specific dsp code, not e.g. all
uses of CONFIG_ and HAVE_ checks. But maybe it is already
enough to compile FFmpeg with MSVC with whole-programm-optimizations
enabled (if one does not disable too many components).
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@outlook.com>
This patch adds MSA (MIPS-SIMD-Arch) optimizations for hpel functions in new file hpeldsp_msa.c
Adds new generic macros (needed for this patch) in libavutil/mips/generic_macros_msa.h
Signed-off-by: Shivraj Patil <shivraj.patil@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Blackfin is a painful platform to work with, no test machines are available
and the range of multimedia applications is dubious. Thus it only represents
a maintenance burden.
* commit 'b4dd424d96':
Remove all SPARC architecture optimizations
Conflicts:
Makefile
configure
libavcodec/sparc/dsputil_vis.c
libavcodec/sparc/dsputil_vis.h
libavcodec/sparc/hpeldsp_vis.c
libavcodec/sparc/simple_idct_vis.c
libavcodec/sparc/vis.h
libswscale/sparc/yuv2rgb_vis.c
libswscale/swscale_internal.h
If someone wants to maintain these (or other) SPARC optimizations, please
contact me or ffmpeg-devel.
I am happy to revert this removial if theres someone considering to
maintain this code.
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit '0c15a9aa7e':
sh4: Remove dubious aligned dsputil code
Conflicts:
libavcodec/sh4/dsputil_align.c
libavcodec/sh4/h264chroma_init.c
libavcodec/sh4/hpeldsp.c
libavcodec/sh4/qpel.c
If someone wants to maintain the sh4 code in ffmpeg, wants to
add more optimizations, or volunteers to maintain any of
what is removed here and can confirm that they are faster.
Then please contact us!
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
The code represents a considerable maintenance burden and it is not
clear that it gives a noticeable benefit to outweigh this after 10
years of improvements in compiler technology since its creation.
