[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] powerpc --> ppc

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hello,

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> There is some inconsistency in the way we handle the naming of the
> PowerPC/PPC architecture right now.  Sometimes it is powerpc, sometimes
> ppc.  I suggest we go for ppc, which we also use as subdirectory name.
> $attached implements this and will help me with some build system
> changes in the future.

I support this change.


> Another thing I noticed: What is ARCH_POWERPC_405?  It is never set...

This was added by this _very old_ commit:

commit 45c7805311002362b42e98a664419bfe8ff23931
Author: bellard <bellard at 9553f0bf-9b14-0410-a0b8-cfaf0461ba5b>
Date:   Wed Jun 5 14:25:06 2002 +0000

    removed unused code - began to merge alpha specific stuff - added
mac macros for suitable CPUs


    git-svn-id: file:///var/local/repositories/ffmpeg/trunk at 667
9553f0bf-9b14-0410-a0b8-cfaf0461ba5b


I don't think there's many people who actively use PowerPC 405 besides
people who hack their DreamBox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreambox)
and students (since the core is freely available), so I don't care if
ever you want to remove the core relative to it.

Guillaume
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