From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [OT?] Unimplemented instructions on a G5?
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 09:14:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4070F938.5010204@intracom.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EC443756-84BA-11D8-89ED-000A95A4DC02@kernel.crashing.org>
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>
>> The offending instruction is the seemingly harmless:
>>
>> mcrxr crX
>>
>> (Move to condition register from XER).
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea if IBM left this instruction
>> unimplemented. Searching the docs I've found nothing.
>
>
> Well, the newest PowerPC architecture docs say that it is
> an optional insn, i.e., not all cpus might implement it.
>
> I can't say whether the 970 implements it or not.
>
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub1.pdf
> Chapter 6.
>
Thanks this was the information I needed. Actually it's only
the mcrxr instruction that's unimplemented. Just my luck :-)
>> If it is unimplemented any idea of how hard it will be to
>> trap and emulate it?
>
>
> In Linux?
>
> Last time I did this, it was easy. Can't seem to find the
> patch right now, though.
>
> Emulating will be slow, of course (but I think you know that).
>
>
> Segher
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Regards
Pantelis
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-01 13:51 [OT?] Unimplemented instructions on a G5? Pantelis Antoniou
2004-04-02 15:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-04-02 15:49 ` David Edelsohn
2004-04-05 6:05 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2004-04-05 6:14 ` Pantelis Antoniou [this message]
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