{"id":948,"date":"2009-01-25T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=948"},"modified":"2009-01-26T00:09:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T08:09:44","slug":"alpha-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/alpha-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha FATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DEC_Alpha\">DEC Alpha<\/a> CPU? <a href=\"http:\/\/hardwarebug.org\/\">M\u00e5ns Rullg\u00e5rd<\/a> does. He still has <a href=\"http:\/\/alphalinux.org\/wiki\/index.php\/UP1500\">his unit in service and running Linux<\/a>. So why not run <a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/\">FATE<\/a>? Just like <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.org\/\">FFmpeg<\/a> supports impossibly obscure multimedia formats, why shouldn&#8217;t it also support CPU types of approximately the same prevalence? In both cases, as long as the support overhead is not too arduous, it&#8217;s not a problem.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m saying here, in case I was unclear, is that M\u00e5ns has an Alpha CPU contributing build\/test results to the central <a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/\">FATE database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other FATE news, today was a very busy day. I carefully evaluated and entered 18 new test specs:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=276\">4xm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=280\">amv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=282\">creative-adpcm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=283\">creative-adpcm-8-2bit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=284\">creative-adpcm-8-2.6bit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=285\">creative-adpcm-8-4bit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=279\">ea-adpcm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=277\">ea-cdata<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=275\">funcom-iss<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=286\">lossless-appleaudio<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=289\">mszh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=281\">psx-str<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=291\">quickdraw<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=278\">redcode-demux<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=287\">tscc-15bit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=288\">tscc-32bit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=292\">vcr1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=290\">zlib<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>With this, I have eliminated much of the low-hanging fruit on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=FATE_Test_Coverage\">FATE Test Coverage wiki page<\/a>. My excuses to avoid testing the more complicated (read: bit inexact) formats are dwindling.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the front page of <a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/\">FATE<\/a> is reaching critical mass. I really need to come up with a new presentation because the front page is getting harder and harder to digest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u00c3\u00a5ns Rullg\u00c3\u00a5rd is running FATE cycles on an Alpha CPU; I entered 18 new FATE test specs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[139,108],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fate-server","tag-alpha","tag-fate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}