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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: vagabon.xyz@gmail.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup.c: introduce __pa_symbol() and get ride of CPHYSADDR()
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:59:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061009165920.GC18308@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061010.005142.03977034.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>

Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:58:17 +0100, Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> wrote:
> > > do you mean "it allows to use only 2 'lui' instructions to load
> > > a symbol address into a register" ?
> > 
> > It allows a 2-instruction "lui ; addiu" sequence instead of a
> > 6-instruction "lui ; lui ; addiu ; addiu ; dsll32 ; addu" sequence.
> 
> Just for clarification: IIRC this optimization needs somewhat
> up-to-date binutils/gcc and is not enabled on current lmo kernel,
> right?

For old toolchains there used to be a gruesome hack (which AFAIR broke
at some point), for modern toolchains there's -msym32.


Thiemo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-09 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-06 13:36 [PATCH] setup.c: introduce __pa_symbol() and get ride of CPHYSADDR() Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-06 17:21 ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-10-09 11:58   ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-09 13:21     ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-10-09 14:25       ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-09 14:58         ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-10-09 15:30           ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-09 15:51           ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-09 16:59             ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2006-10-10  8:49               ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-10 13:49                 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-10 14:19                   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-10 15:01                     ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-10 15:29                       ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-10 16:04                         ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-10 16:16                           ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-10-10 21:51                           ` Ralf Baechle
2006-10-11  3:11                             ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-11  9:37                             ` Franck Bui-Huu

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