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

Tue Dec 4 12:00:34 EET 2018

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/

Regards,
Dominik
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