[llvm-commits] [llvm] r169280 - /llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

[Sean Silva]

This is for the 3.2 release, right? Are the changes to this file on
trunk being pulled into the release branch?

-- Sean Silva

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Justin Holewinski
<jholewinski at nvidia.com> wrote:
> Author: jholewinski
> Date: Tue Dec  4 10:11:51 2012
> New Revision: 169280
>
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=169280&view=rev
> Log:
> Update release notes for NVPTX
>
> Modified:
>     llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
>
> Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html?rev=169280&r1=169279&r2=169280&view=diff
> ==============================================================================
> --- llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html (original)
> +++ llvm/trunk/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Tue Dec  4 10:11:51 2012
> @@ -442,6 +442,8 @@
>
>  <ul>
>    <li>...</li>
> +  <li>New NVPTX back-end (replacing existing PTX back-end) based on NVIDIA
> +      sources</li>
>  </ul>
>
>  </div>
> @@ -696,6 +698,27 @@
>
>  <!--=========================================================================-->
>  <h3>
> +<a name="NVPTX">PTX/NVPTX Target Improvements</a>
> +</h3>
> +
> +<div>
> +
> +<p>The PTX back-end has been replaced by the NVPTX back-end, which is based on
> +   the LLVM back-end used by NVIDIA in their CUDA (nvcc) and OpenCL compiler.
> +   Some highlights include:</p>
> +<ul>
> +  <li>Compatibility with PTX 3.1 and SM 3.5</li>
> +  <li>Support for NVVM intrinsics as defined in the NVIDIA Compiler SDK</li>
> +  <li>Full compatibility with old PTX back-end, with much greater coverage of
> +      LLVM IR</li>
> +</ul>
> +
> +<p>Please submit any back-end bugs to the LLVM Bugzilla site.</p>
> +
> +</div>
> +
> +<!--=========================================================================-->
> +<h3>
>  <a name="OtherTS">Other Target Specific Improvements</a>
>  </h3>
>
> @@ -805,7 +828,7 @@
>    <p>Known problem areas include:</p>
>
>  <ul>
> -  <li>The CellSPU, MSP430, PTX and XCore backends are experimental.</li>
> +  <li>The CellSPU, MSP430, and XCore backends are experimental.</li>
>
>    <li>The integrated assembler, disassembler, and JIT is not supported by
>        several targets. If an integrated assembler is not supported, then a
>
>
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