From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: tab@snarc.org, linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc32 use simplified mmenonics
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:24:42 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093224281.9537.279.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093135526.5759.2513.camel@cube>
> I'd rather you went the other way, replacing these
> barely-documented instructions with ones that are
> easy to look up. Motorola has about a zillion of
> these "simplified" instructions. I guess Motorola
> and IBM were jealous of Intel's CISC instructions.
It's just simplified mnemonics, not instructions ;)
> The big problem is this:
> THESE ARE NOT IN THE INDEX!!!!!!
Yah, that sucks, I tend to agree... I've had a hard time in the
"early days" finding some of them in the manuals
> So, if I forget what one of these many instructions
> does, I'll have quite the time paging through the
> manual trying to find it.
>
> If it's not in the index, please avoid it.
--
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-23 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-22 0:45 [PATCH] ppc32 use simplified mmenonics Albert Cahalan
2004-08-22 9:43 ` Vincent Hanquez
2004-08-22 10:41 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-22 14:45 ` Vincent Hanquez
2004-08-22 12:40 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-22 16:28 ` Vincent Hanquez
2004-08-22 14:29 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-22 19:17 ` Vincent Hanquez
2004-08-22 17:02 ` Horst von Brand
2004-08-23 1:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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2004-08-21 22:23 Vincent Hanquez
2004-08-22 2:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-22 9:48 ` Vincent Hanquez
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