From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>,
"Liu Hongming (Alan)" <alanliu@trident.com.cn>,
Linux/MIPS Development <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: need help on unaligned loads,stores!
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:49:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031013204906.GA21100@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0310132132550.26520-100000@starflower.sonytel.be>
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:34:07PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> I guess Liu meant the (patented) instructions to do explicit unaligned
> accesses. Real MIPS CPUs do support these.
That correct. Unfortunately emulating of these instructions in exception
handlers would also be covered by the patents, so rewriting which would
be rather easy in all cases I can think of is the way to go ...
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-13 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-13 1:44 need help on unaligned loads,stores! Liu Hongming (Alan)
2003-10-13 18:27 ` Thomas Horsten
2003-10-13 19:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-10-13 20:49 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2003-10-13 21:15 ` Thomas Horsten
2003-10-13 21:37 ` Ralf Baechle
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2003-10-14 1:18 Liu Hongming (Alan)
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