Sean McGovern: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM Michael Niedermayer > <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote: >> >> Hi Sean >> >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 12:42:30PM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote: >>> While POWER & PowerPC systems have technically >>> supported little-endian from inception, >>> it did not come into proper usage until the >>> introducion of the POWER8 in 2013. >>> >>> The AltiVec acceleration present here has not >>> had meaningful change since before then. >>> >>> refs: Trac/11120 >>> --- >>> libpostproc/postprocess.c | 13 - >>> libpostproc/postprocess.h | 1 - >>> libpostproc/postprocess_altivec_template.c | 1211 -------------------- >>> libpostproc/postprocess_template.c | 31 - >>> 4 files changed, 1256 deletions(-) >>> delete mode 100644 libpostproc/postprocess_altivec_template.c >> >> What exactly are you fixing here / what is the problem? >> You say the code hasnt been changed and you link to a ticket >> where people cant decide if they talk about big or little endian >> and that links to seemingly unrelated tickets >> >> Please clearly explain what the issue is and why this is >> the correct fix >> > > We already discovered a few months back that we have no real > maintainers for these ppc pieces, so as noted in the ticket I am > working on removing them.
unmaintained != broken > Is this what you want in the patch notes? > >> Also you are changing public API without version bump >> > > Oops, yeah OK I can do that. > Is a minor bump enough or should this be a major? This would need a proper deprecation period. (You can also deprecate the 3DNOW define at the same time.) - Andreas _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
