Progress for this project can be monitored on:

http://altivec.powercollaboration.org/project/show/30

Please visit my MySQL project page to read more about the project. You will there find benchmark results, case studies to download and PowerPC patches for the MySQL database server.

http://www.greyhound-data.com/gunnar/mysql/

Ports reorganization, udev support, snapshots from the CVS, gcc with autovectorization, improved pkgutils, we're working on a new release of Crux for PowerPC but we need of new developers for our project... consider write us if you can help! :+)

I restarted hacking ffmpeg to have it better optimized on linux/ppc. I added a missing bit in h264 and workarounded the hadamard code since it builds fine with gcc-4.1 and w/out hand made reg allocation builds on gcc-3.4 too (thanks to Alan Curry for testing and benchmarking), hopefully encoding will take less time.

On other news I'm trying to get the snow wavelet codec bearable adding altivec optimization, so far vertical and horizontal compose are complete, now I have to hack my way through inner_add_yblock (and that one looks but annoying).
This work is based on the mmx/sse2 patch made by Robert and Oded, that's why it took just a day to be complete.

The next week I'll hopefully look at h264 again since looks like there is still room for improvements.

I put lately some patches against eterm-cvs to add altivec improved tint code.

I hadn't the time to test the full integration ,but it passes all the testcases so it couldn't cause any subtle wreckage.

you may fetch them from http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero/development/e/eterm/

Hopefully I'll start playing with evas soon

In almost sparse order:

- mplayer/ffmpeg gcc-fsf fixes for the altivec code

- gcc-3.x/4.x tests, fixups, workarounds

- stable testing of different web related packages (php for drupal and rails to name a couple)

- playground for testing some projects (K3d and blender to name two)