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Re: [PATCH] fix dcbt operand order for "server" category
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:30:18 +1030
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix dcbt operand order for "server" category
- References: <1233865794.11684.36.camel@otta>
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:29:54PM -0600, Peter Bergner wrote:
> The dcbt instruction that supports the TH operand used to be optional but
> now is part of the base ISA. However, Embdedded and Server categories use
> different operand ordering, with Embedded having TH being the first operand
> and Server having TH being the last/3rd operand. Ditto for dcbtst.
Horrible. This patch will break the linux kernel, won't it?
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM