Details:
- Changed all occurrances of
micro-kernel -> microkernel
macro-kernel -> macrokernel
micro-panel -> micropanel
in all markdown documents in 'docs' directory. This change is being
made since we've reached the point in adoption and acceptance of
BLIS's insights where words such as "microkernel" are no longer new,
and therefore now merit being unhyphenated.
- Updated "Implementation Notes" sections of KernelsHowTo.md, which
still contained references to nonexistent cpp macros such as
BLIS_DEFAULT_MR_? and BLIS_PACKDIM_MR_?.
- Added 'run-fast' and 'check-fast' targets to testsuite/Makefile.
- Minor updates to Testsuite.md, including suggesting use of
'make check' and 'make check-fast' when running from the local
testsuite directory.
- Added a comment to top-level Makefile explaining the purpose behind
the TESTSUITE_WRAPPER variable, which at first glance appears to serve
no purpose.
Details:
- Updated docs/Testsuite.md to include mention of the new mixed-domain
and mixed-precision settings, including descriptions.
- Updated docs/MixedDatatypes.md to include a brief section on running
the testsuite to exercise mixed-datatype functionality, which mostly
amounts to a link to the Testsuite.md document.
- Minor verbiage change to testsuite output to correct a misleading
label associated with the value returned by the query function
bli_info_get_simd_num_registers(). (The function does not return the
number of SIMD registers present in the hardware, but rather a maximum
assumed value for the purposes of allocating temporary microtile
workspace on the function stack.)
Details:
- Updated the build system so that "lesser" Makefiles, such as those in
belonging to example code or the testsuite, may be run even if the
directory is orphaned from the original build tree. This allows a
user to configure, compile, and install BLIS, delete the build tree
(that is, the source distribution, or the build directory for out-
of-tree builds) and then compile example or testsuite code and link
against the installed copy of BLIS (provided the example or testsuite
directory was preserved or obtained from another source). The only
requirement is that make be invoked while setting the
BLIS_INSTALL_PATH variable to the same installation prefix used when
BLIS was configured. The easiest syntax is:
make BLIS_INSTALL_PATH=/install/prefix
though it's also permissible to set BLIS_INSTALL_PATH as an
environment variable prior to running 'make'.
- Updated all lesser Makefiles to implement the new aforementioned build
behavior.
- Relocated check-blastest.sh and check-blistest.sh from build to
blastest and testsuite, respectively, so that if those directories are
copied elsewhere the user can still run 'make check' locally.
- Updated docs/Testsuite.md with language that mentions this new option
of building/linking against an installed copy of BLIS.
Details:
- Within the documents in docs/*.md, reverted links to other local
documents to relative paths.
- Fixed some links/documents that did not yet have the '.md' suffix.
- Testing whether we can use relative links ('docs/BLISTypedAPI.md')
from within README.md.
Details:
- Updated most markdown links in the documents/wikis to use absolute
paths instead of the relative paths that were in use previously.
A few links were not updated, except for adding a ".md" to reflect
the documents' new names, in order to test whether relative
linking still works.
Details:
- Exported all github wikis to a new 'docs' directory.
- Renamed 'BLISAPIQuickReference' wiki to 'BLISTypedAPI' and removed
all cntx_t* arguments from the (now non-expert) APIs (with the
exception of the kernel APIs).
- Added section to BuildSystem documenting new ARG_MAX hack.
