Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target/ppc: Fix reserved bit mask of dstst instruction

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 05:24:12AM +0200, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 01:54:28AM +0200, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> > > According to the Vector/SIMD extension documentation bit 6 that is
> > > currently masked is valid (listed as transient bit) but bits 7 and 8
> > > should be reserved instead. Fix the mask to match this.
> > 
> > What document can I find information on dstst in?  The ISA documents I
> > have handy are either too early (the instruction didn't exist yet) or
> > too late (the instruction was considered obsolete and no details are
> > given).
> 
> I've found it in "PowerPC Microprocessor Family: Vector/SIMD Multimedia
> Extension Technology Programming Environments Manual" Version 2.06 which was
> the first one Google found. According to this document dstst should have the
> same reserved bits as dst.

Thanks.

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