Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-13 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le 11 juin 2024 17:15:11 GMT+03:00, Vittorio Giovara a écrit : >Is there anyone actively vouching for this old arch? The architecture does not participate in the common libavutil CPU detection code, and therefore also can't get tested by checkasm. So nobody can credibly vouch for this. FWIW

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-13 Thread Vittorio Giovara
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 6:32 PM Sean McGovern wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 10:15 Vittorio Giovara > wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 3:49 PM Michael Niedermayer < > > mich...@niedermayer.cc> > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 02:26:37PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > > > >

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-13 Thread Sean McGovern
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 10:15 Vittorio Giovara wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 3:49 PM Michael Niedermayer < > mich...@niedermayer.cc> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 02:26:37PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > > > > > > > > Le 11 juin 2024 12:59:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer < > >

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-11 Thread Vittorio Giovara
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 3:49 PM Michael Niedermayer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 02:26:37PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > > > > > Le 11 juin 2024 12:59:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer < > mich...@niedermayer.cc> a écrit : > > >On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 08:52:08PM -0400, Sean McGovern

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-11 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2024-06-11 15:39:52 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > >> It is worth mentioning that even Debian hasn't supported Alpha (along > > >> with several other architectures) since release 8.0 in June 2018. > > > > > >I think debian dropped alpha from the officially supported architectures > > >but

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-11 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 02:26:37PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > > Le 11 juin 2024 12:59:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer > a écrit : > >On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 08:52:08PM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote: > >[...] > >> Are there any real concerns about the Alpha removal itself? > >> People

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-11 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le 11 juin 2024 12:59:23 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : >On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 08:52:08PM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote: >[...] >> Are there any real concerns about the Alpha removal itself? >> People still wanting to use FFmpeg for hardware that old can stick >> with 7.0 (and fork it

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-11 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 08:52:08PM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote: [...] > Are there any real concerns about the Alpha removal itself? > People still wanting to use FFmpeg for hardware that old can stick > with 7.0 (and fork it if they like -- that's the beauty of FOSS). Loosing security support, soun

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-11 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 03:56:46PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > > Le 10 juin 2024 14:57:29 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer > a écrit : > >Also we have alpha fate clients: > >https://fate.ffmpeg.org/?query=subarch:alpha%2F%2F > > Are there? I only see Ubuntu 22.04 builds which must be c

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-10 Thread Sean McGovern
Hi, On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 8:17 PM Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 02:42:16PM +0200, Vittorio Giovara wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 2:29 PM Michael Niedermayer > > wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 04:08:48PM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote: > [...] > > > if thats

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-10 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 02:42:16PM +0200, Vittorio Giovara wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 2:29 PM Michael Niedermayer > wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 04:08:48PM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote: [...] > > if thats not possible or helpfull and you still want to keep > > using a servivce where y

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-10 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le 10 juin 2024 16:07:14 GMT+03:00, Andreas Rheinhardt a écrit : >Rémi Denis-Courmont: >> >> >> Le 10 juin 2024 14:57:29 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer >> a écrit : >>> Also we have alpha fate clients: >>> https://fate.ffmpeg.org/?query=subarch:alpha%2F%2F >> >> Are there? I only see Ubunt

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-10 Thread Andreas Rheinhardt
Rémi Denis-Courmont: > > > Le 10 juin 2024 14:57:29 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer > a écrit : >> Also we have alpha fate clients: >> https://fate.ffmpeg.org/?query=subarch:alpha%2F%2F > > Are there? I only see Ubuntu 22.04 builds which must be cross-compiled since > Ubuntu 22.04 doesn't supp

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-10 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le 10 juin 2024 14:57:29 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : >Also we have alpha fate clients: >https://fate.ffmpeg.org/?query=subarch:alpha%2F%2F Are there? I only see Ubuntu 22.04 builds which must be cross-compiled since Ubuntu 22.04 doesn't support DEC Alpha, not even as a port. So

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-10 Thread Vittorio Giovara
On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 2:29 PM Michael Niedermayer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 04:08:48PM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote: > [...] > > Side note: it seems GMail now prevents sending patches directly with > > git send-email > > I have difficulty believing this, but if so, the problem is gmail > a

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-10 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 04:08:48PM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote: [...] > Side note: it seems GMail now prevents sending patches directly with > git send-email I have difficulty believing this, but if so, the problem is gmail and you should contact gmails support about this. if thats not possible or

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-10 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 04:08:48PM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote: > Hi, > > Attached is a patch to do proper removal of support for the DEC Alpha. > I hope it is not mangled. > > Side note: it seems GMail now prevents sending patches directly with > git send-email -- I really wish we could move to a

[FFmpeg-devel] remove DEC Alpha DSP & support code

2024-06-09 Thread Sean McGovern
Hi, Attached is a patch to do proper removal of support for the DEC Alpha. I hope it is not mangled. Side note: it seems GMail now prevents sending patches directly with git send-email -- I really wish we could move to a CI platform like GitLab or Gitea. -- Sean McGovern From 68d2bc76dfd8d153de5