<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Daniel,<div><br></div><div>Right now, I’m looking to solidify the branch. There were some issues that cropped in, but have been fixed. I don’t really want to add anything else to the branch at this point unless it’s a P0.</div><div><br></div><div>-bw</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 10, 2013, at 7:16 AM, Daniel Sanders <<a href="mailto:daniel.sanders@imgtec.com">daniel.sanders@imgtec.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hi Bill,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">These don't really fit into the "major regressions since the last release" category (because MSA is new to 3.4), but it would be good if we can get these fixes into the release_34 branch. They are all MSA specific:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>r196494 - [mips][msa] Fix issue with immediate fields of LD/ST instructions not being correctly encoded/decoded.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>r196775 - [mips][msa] Fix suboptimal FrameIndex lowering for ld.[hwd] and st.[hwd].<br>This commit is only a minor performance improvement but it's necessary to make r196777 apply cleanly.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>r196777 - [mips][msa] Fix invalid generated code when lowering FrameIndex involving unaligned offsets.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span>r196910 - [mips][msa] Correct sld and sldi builtins.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Daniel Sanders<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Leading Software Design Engineer, MIPS Processor IP<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Imagination Technologies Limited<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.imgtec.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: blue;">www.imgtec.com</span></a></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>