Programming Guides for Linux on Power

This project contains documentation helpful to application developers for Linux on OpenPOWER systems. The following documents are contained:

• Linux on Power Porting Guide: Vector Intrinsics -- A guide to porting x86 vector intrinsics to the OpenPOWER processor. The online version of the document can be found in the OpenPOWER Foundation Document library at TBD.

• Intrinsic Function Programming Reference -- A document detailing the various vector intrinsics on the OpenPOWER processor. This document is just beginning to be created.

To build this project, one must ensure that the Docs-Master project has also been cloned at the same directory level as the Programming-Guides project. This can be accomplished with the following steps:

1. Clone the master documentation project (Docs-Master) using the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/OpenPOWERFoundation/Docs-Master.git

2. Clone this project (Programming-Guides) using the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/OpenPOWERFoundation/Programming-Guides.git

3. Build all the documents withing the project with these commands:

$ cd Programming-Guides
$ mvn clean generate-sources

The project which controls the look and feel of the document is the Docs-Maven-Plugin project, an OpenPOWER Foundation private project on GitHub. To obtain access to the Maven Plugin project, contact Jeff Scheel [scheel@us.ibm.com](mailto://scheel@us.ibm.com) or Jeff Brown [jeffdb@us.ibm.com](mailto://jeffdb@us.ibm.com).

License

This project is licensed under the Apache V2 license. More information can be found in the LICENSE file or online at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Community

To comment on, propose changes, and engage in community dialogue, you can open issues in the Project Issues or post to the community mailing list [syssw-programming-guides@mailinglist.openpowerfoundation.org](mailto://syssw-programming-guides@mailinglist.openpowerfoundation.org).

Contributions

To contribute to the project, post patches to the community mailing list [syssw-programming-guides@mailinglist.openpowerfoundation.org](mailto://syssw-programming-guides@mailinglist.openpowerfoundation.org) where they will be reviewed and approved when ready.

Contributions to this project should conform to the Developer Certificate of Origin as defined at http://elinux.org/Developer_Certificate_Of_Origin. Commits to this project need to contain the following line to indicate the submitter accepts the DCO:

Signed-off-by: Your Name <your_email@domain.com>

By contributing in this way, you agree to the terms as follows:

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