Re: transmeta cpu code question

[Ben Hoskings <ben@jeeves.bpa.nu>]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:02 pm, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hello!
>
> What does this do:
>
>                 printk(KERN_INFO "CPU: Processor revision %u.%u.%u.%u,
> %u MHz\n",
>                        (cpu_rev >> 24) & 0xff,
>                        (cpu_rev >> 16) & 0xff,
>                        (cpu_rev >> 8) & 0xff,
>                        cpu_rev & 0xff,
>                        cpu_freq);
>
> (from arch/i386/kernel/cpu/transmeta.c)
>
> Does not & 0xff make no sense? 0 & 1 makes 0, 1 & 1 makes 1,
> no changes.

I may be wrong, but afaik the 0xff's are there to truncate the other values to 
8-bit. 0xff == 0b11111111, which is 8-bit.

>From the bitshifting above, cpu_rev seems to be a 32-bit value, so the four 
sections of cpu_rev (>>24, >>16, >>8 and >>0) are being ANDed with 0xff to 
show only the 8 low bits (post-shift).

>
> And I don't understand why we do this for 8bit and shifting the
> cpu_rev...
>
> Can someone enlighten me (with CC' as I am not subscribed) ?
>
> Nico
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-- 
Ben