Re: RFAdvice - a couple of old lost Altivec patches

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:39:34PM -0700, Dale Johannesen wrote:
>
> > > This is a clearly desirable feature; the
> > > difficulty is, the routine is written to the old layout of
> > > CONST_VECTOR.  I'm having trouble figuring out how to update it for
> > > the new one.  Anyone have suggestions?
> > I can do better than that, we have it working.  Unfortunately this patch
> > came originally from Motorola (according to my archive search here) and
> > is therefore off limits for FSF, last I heard.
> I thought the copyright issues with the Motorola code had been
> resolved, but you may be more up on this than I am.  Disappointing.
The last I remember, it was somewhat confused, but hopefully Kumar sees
this and clarifies for us.  Of course, if you take old easy_vector_constant
bits of interest and simply rewrite them for the current code base, that
completely finesses the problem.  (And if there is no other reasonable way
to express those old bits, then there is no creativity involved and thus
no copyright to worry about!)

Stan