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

[Justin Holewinski]

I'm not sure, I asked Pawel and am awaiting a response.


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:

> 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The PTX back-end has been replaced by the NVPTX back-end, which is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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Thanks,

Justin Holewinski
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