[Tremor] changes for subversion

[Monty]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:34:47PM -0800, Pete wrote:
> Hello all!  What is the procedure for getting changes into Subversion?  Who
> manages the lowmem branch?  
> 
> I am also curious why it seems like many people are doing the same porting work
> on Tremor, yet no one contributes their ported code.  Is this a sign that
> Tremor is dying, or just that different companies are trying to protect their
> intellectual property?

Most likely the latter.  Also, Tremor was never intended to be a
finished 'product'; it is and always was, 'a good place to start a
porting effort'.  DSPs have quite a few highly esoteric architectures
that can't be adaquately captured in a single, common C sourcebase.
The result of a porting effort to a typical DSP family is a ball of
code that is not only useless on any other processor, but also usually
very tightly tailored to run under a specific embedded OS in a single
hardware product.

I'm going to be tossing the TI c54 port of tremor into SVN soon (I
have no reason not to), but you'll notice it's not only very specific
to a single processor, it also strongly reflects the biases of the
specific piece of hardware it was written for (the Neuros).

Monty