From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA13641 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:23:24 -0700 To: Alex deVries cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] depi? Reply-To: law@cygnus.com In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 15 Nov 1999 03:08:49 EST. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:24:01 -0700 Message-ID: <3669.942650641@upchuck> From: Jeffrey A Law List-ID: In message you write: > > What does this actually do: > > ; Get ready for phys->virt transition > ; First order of business is to adjust some pointers > depi 3,1,2,%arg0 ; phys->virt(free mem ptr) > depi 3,1,2, %sp ; phys->virt SP > depi 3,1,2, %dp ; p2v DP > > in head.S? > > I don't have a 'depi' in the index of my PA 2.0 assembler book. I have a > depwi and a depdi though. HP changed a large amount of their assembly syntax for PA2.0. depi == depwi Basically they made the extract/deposit instructions explicitly mention their size [word vs double word]. jeff