Hi Jeff: > What I'd been planning to do internally at Ventana was to update our > codebase to gcc-13 once it's released. Then I'd backport RVV autovec > work from the gcc-14 dev tree into that Ventana branch. > > Instead, but along the same lines, we could have a public gcc-13 based > branch which follows that same process and where Rivos, SiFive, Rivai, > Ventana (and potentially others with an interest in this space) could > collaborate. Essentially it'd be gcc-13 + RVV autovec support. We'd > probably have to hash out a bit of policy with the shared branch, but > I'd like to think we could make it work.
+1, I like the idea, I could imagine we definitely will do the same work more than four times by different companies if we don't have a collaboration branch... > > Thoughts? > > jeff >
