[Libre-soc-dev] VSX pseudo-code Extraction

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Friday, February 19, 2021, Richard Wilbur <richard.wilbur at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2021, at 12:40, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:
>>
>> frieder there is one task that would help, Veera as well,
>>
>> we need the VSX pseudocode extracted from the OpenPOWER ref manual v3.0B
>> and put into this format:
>>
>>
https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=libreriscv.git;a=blob;f=openpower/isa/fixedarith.mdwn;h=9fd56d5db26de19046705ab479922646bd40f286;hb=HEAD
>>
>> if everyone takes a chapter each it is much easier.
>
> I’m happy to sign up for a chapter!

exxcellent.


>  Is there a bug/task set up to track this discussion and coordinate
efforts

602. https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602

i will reply there.


>> originally i used pdftotext to at least get something, the format was a
>> mess but it did 80% of the work.
>>
>> the format is VERY strict, because it is read by software.  exactly the
>> right number of spaces etc.
>>
>> the most important skill to have is "not fall asleep at the keyboard"
>
> The file referenced by the git link above ends with the suffix “.mdwn”
leading me to believe the intended target format is Markdown.  Is that
deduction correct?

correct.


> You stressed the strictness of the format (“exactly the right number of
spaces”) so I was hoping for a more definite specification than simply an
example.  In the absence of a definite specification, what software will be
reading this?

pagereader.py


https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=soc.git;a=blob;f=src/soc/decoder/pseudo/pagereader.py;hb=HEAD




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