From: Justin Holewinski <jholewinski@nvidia.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:11:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update release notes for NVPTX
X-Git-Url: http://plrg.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=315f09f422a3c33a44e6d5c2a78f284a9304994d;p=oota-llvm.git

Update release notes for NVPTX

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@169280 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
index 31cb26ca020..957e79c2686 100644
--- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
@@ -442,6 +442,8 @@ core and border computations, control overhead vs. code size) </li>
 
 <ul>
   <li>...</li>
+  <li>New NVPTX back-end (replacing existing PTX back-end) based on NVIDIA
+      sources</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
@@ -694,6 +696,27 @@ core and border computations, control overhead vs. code size) </li>
 
 </div>
 
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<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The PTX back-end has been replaced by the NVPTX back-end, which is based on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>
@@ -805,7 +828,7 @@ to remove a dependency on Target. </p>
   <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