From 3ed668e97c9231d8c0a2766601e0eef8dcc7c1e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lkcl <lkcl@web>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 11:45:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH]

---
 openpower/sv/bitmanip.mdwn | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/openpower/sv/bitmanip.mdwn b/openpower/sv/bitmanip.mdwn
index 3924a3575..eb9d90095 100644
--- a/openpower/sv/bitmanip.mdwn
+++ b/openpower/sv/bitmanip.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 [[!tag standards]]
 
+# bitmanipulation
+
+**DRAFT STATUS**
+
+this extension amalgamates bitnanipulation primitives from many sources, including RISC-V bitmanip, Packed SIMD, AVX-512 and OpenPOWER VSX.  Vectorisation and SIMD are removed: these are straight scalar (element) ooerations.  Vectorisation Context is provided by [[openpower/sv]].
+
 # summary
 
 minor opcode allocation
-- 
2.30.2