From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:42:56 -0800 Received: from brutus.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.146]:56566 "EHLO lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:42:53 -0800 Received: (ralf@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de) by bacchus.dhis.org id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:42:26 -0200 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:42:26 -0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: "Jun Sun" , Subject: Re: broken RM7000 in CVS ... Message-ID: <20010115064226.D8866@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <3A5E7FFB.79925DF9@mvista.com> <001e01c07c68$96155f80$0deca8c0@Ulysses> <3A5F53CB.F8EC3947@mvista.com> <020a01c07ccf$cf11d220$0deca8c0@Ulysses> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <020a01c07ccf$cf11d220$0deca8c0@Ulysses>; from kevink@mips.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:42:24PM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:42:24PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > And thereby hangs a tale. MIPS tweaked the Config register, and has > added additional registers "behind" the Config register (a previously > reserved zero field in the mtc0/mfc0 instructions now serves as a > sort of bank select, and most current gnu assemblers recognize > "mfc0 $2, 16, 1", etc.) in MIPS32 to allow MMU and cache configuration, Do you know when the ability to address the additional register banks got added to gas? I'd like to get rid of the sucky .word thing we're using right now to address the additional register banks. Ralf From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:42:26 -0200 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: broken RM7000 in CVS ... Message-ID: <20010115064226.D8866@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <3A5E7FFB.79925DF9@mvista.com> <001e01c07c68$96155f80$0deca8c0@Ulysses> <3A5F53CB.F8EC3947@mvista.com> <020a01c07ccf$cf11d220$0deca8c0@Ulysses> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <020a01c07ccf$cf11d220$0deca8c0@Ulysses>; from kevink@mips.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:42:24PM +0100 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Return-Path: To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: Jun Sun , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20010115084226.TxfSNKXfMntOuCYrjpm6KXNomnvtAhzwhsbmdFgDNPo@z> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:42:24PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > And thereby hangs a tale. MIPS tweaked the Config register, and has > added additional registers "behind" the Config register (a previously > reserved zero field in the mtc0/mfc0 instructions now serves as a > sort of bank select, and most current gnu assemblers recognize > "mfc0 $2, 16, 1", etc.) in MIPS32 to allow MMU and cache configuration, Do you know when the ability to address the additional register banks got added to gas? I'd like to get rid of the sucky .word thing we're using right now to address the additional register banks. Ralf