Assembly

Assembly

[Naushit Sakarvadia]

Hello,

I am trying to learn assembly language of Powerpc.

Anybody can suggest good point to start?

I tried to read User Manual of MPC860 and InstrucionManual but
it doesnt talk about architecture of PPC,meas how many register it has...
how many flags..etc...

I need something like programmer's guide ,which is not I couldnt find on
Motarola website.

Can somebody experienced point me out where to start?

Thanks in advance.

Bye

Regards
Naushit

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PowerPC info URL's (was Re: Assembly)

[Vinai]

Hi,

Take a look at the following pages.  I keep meaning to actually go into
some of this stuff, but there's "the pathway to hell" etc, etc ;-) Hope
they have what you are looking for:

	http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/
	http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/teksupport/
	http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/teksupport/teklibrary/

Some of the stuff on the last page may be what you need ??

cheers
vinai

}I am trying to learn assembly language of Powerpc.
}
}Anybody can suggest good point to start?
}
}I tried to read User Manual of MPC860 and InstrucionManual but it
}doesnt talk about architecture of PPC,meas how many register it has...
}how many flags..etc...
}
}I need something like programmer's guide ,which is not I couldnt find on
}Motarola website.


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Re: Assembly

[Peter Chang]

At 14:51 -0400 08.11.1999, Naushit Sakarvadia wrote:
>I am trying to learn assembly language of Powerpc.
>Anybody can suggest good point to start?

Someone else pointed out some url's at the motorola site, but I would 
also suggest the 'powerpc compiler's writer guide'. Not quite basic 
things, but does some explaining about how various bits of the 
architecture fit together etc.

I can dig around for my online copy, but I think you can get it from 
ibm's site.

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RE: Assembly

[Heinz Blaettner]

On 11-Aug-99 Naushit Sakarvadia wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to learn assembly language of Powerpc.
> 
> Anybody can suggest good point to start?
> 
> I tried to read User Manual of MPC860 and InstrucionManual but
> it doesnt talk about architecture of PPC,meas how many register it has...
> how many flags..etc...
> 
> I need something like programmer's guide ,which is not I couldnt find on
> Motarola website.
> 
Have a look at Motorola page^[:

        www.mot-sps.com/home/lit_ord.html

        order following doc's:
        MCPFPE/AD
        MPCPFE32B/AD
        MPCPRG/D
        MPCPRGREF/D

bye
        heinz

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Re: Assembly

[David Riley]

Heinz Blaettner wrote:

> On 11-Aug-99 Naushit Sakarvadia wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to learn assembly language of Powerpc.
> >
> > Anybody can suggest good point to start?
> >
> > I tried to read User Manual of MPC860 and InstrucionManual but
> > it doesnt talk about architecture of PPC,meas how many register it has...
> > how many flags..etc...
> >
> > I need something like programmer's guide ,which is not I couldnt find on
> > Motarola website.
> >
> Have a look at Motorola page^[:
>
>         www.mot-sps.com/home/lit_ord.html
>
>         order following doc's:
>         MCPFPE/AD
>         MPCPFE32B/AD
>         MPCPRG/D
>         MPCPRGREF/D

I'm not sure where I got it, but I have a nice book on PPC assembly that gives
quite a bit of help, called "Optimizing PowerPC Code", by Gary Kacmarcik.
It's a fairly early book, but not much has changed since the PowerPC was new.
All you need to know is that the 604 and up have three integer units instead
of one.

As far as registers go, the powerPC has 32 64-bit floating-point registers
(great for blitters) and 32 32-bit general purpose registers.there are also
several special registers (machine state, link, counter, rtc (only on 601),
etc).

Does anyone know if 64-bit powerPC's ever came out (e.g. the 620)?  I noticed
that the vger kernels (I think at least the 2.3 ones) have had them for a
while now.


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Re: Assembly

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Andreas Bogk writes:

Andreas> David Riley <happyoscar42@usa.net> writes:

>> Does anyone know if 64-bit powerPC's ever came out (e.g. the 620)?  I noticed

Andreas> As far as I know, IBM sold some 64-bit RS/6000 machines with
Andreas> them. They are of course grossly expensive.

	The September 1999 issue of UNIX Review's Performance Computing
shows the two IBM 64-bit PowerPC processors: the Power3 (aka PPC630) used
in the RS/6000 Model 43P/260 and the RS64 used in the RS/6000 Model S70
and RS/6000 Model H70.  The RS64 processor also is used in AS/400 systems.

David


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Re: Assembly

[Andreas Bogk]

David Riley <happyoscar42@usa.net> writes:

> Does anyone know if 64-bit powerPC's ever came out (e.g. the 620)?  I noticed

As far as I know, IBM sold some 64-bit RS/6000 machines with
them. They are of course grossly expensive.

Andreas

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Re: Assembly

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 08:40:06AM -0400, David Riley wrote:
> I'm not sure where I got it, but I have a nice book on PPC assembly that gives
> quite a bit of help, called "Optimizing PowerPC Code", by Gary Kacmarcik.
> It's a fairly early book, but not much has changed since the PowerPC was new.
> All you need to know is that the 604 and up have three integer units instead
> of one.

Seconded.  This book, in combination with the Motorola reference
manuals (available in PDF from their web site) is my complete assembly
library; it's always been enough.

Dan

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