From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kyle McMartin Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:41:55 +0000 Subject: Re: dropping CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT from ia64 Message-Id: <20060525154155.GB31604@skunkworks.cabal.ca> List-Id: References: <200605241438.34303.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200605241438.34303.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:40:48AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > in the pre-Montecito IPF CPUs. AFAIK, the exact same binary is even > > used both for the Windows and Linux versions of IA32EL. > > The rest of the ia32-el package is open source ... which should > provide enough documentation on how the OS-level code interfaces > to the instruction execution engine to allow it to be replaced. > Possibly a stupid question, but I couldn't find any information in the (afaik) only released Montecito documentation (the Optimization guide). Has the br.ia completer been removed from the architecture? Or will it generate a trap which can be caught and the translator invoked? The doc only references added insns, not those removed from the arch. Cheers, Kyle