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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Add ARM920T to ARM emulation
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:29:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A23D7B0.9050706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906011313.49802.paul@codesourcery.com>

Paul Brook wrote:
> B is a direct branch that never changes mode. BX is an indirect branch that 
> mode switches based on the low address bit.
> BL and BLX(register) are exactly the same as B/BX except they also set LR.
> BLX(immediate) is a direct mode switching call.
> loads into the PC either ignore(v4t) or mode switch (v5) on the low address 
> bit.
> ALU writes to the PC always ignore the low bit in Thumb mode. In ARM mode the 
> low bit is either ignored(v6) or used to mode switch (v7).
>
> BX was introduced in v4t, BLX was introduced in v5.
>   

Does no sane instruction set exist?

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-01 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-29 13:23 [Qemu-devel] Add ARM920T to ARM emulation Vincent Sanders
2009-05-29 13:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Update ARM emulation to be version 4t by default Vincent Sanders
2009-05-29 21:59   ` Paul Brook
2009-05-30 10:08     ` Vincent Sanders
2009-05-29 22:05 ` [Qemu-devel] Add ARM920T to ARM emulation Paul Brook
2009-06-01 11:35   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-01 12:13     ` Paul Brook
2009-06-01 13:29       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-06-01 13:48         ` Tristan Gingold
2009-06-01 13:58           ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-01 16:34         ` Paul Brook
2009-06-01 23:11       ` Jamie Lokier

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