program exception emulates mfspr PVR

Frank Rowand frank_rowand at mvista.com
Fri Feb 16 09:39:17 EST 2001


Why did emulate_instruction() get added into traps.c to emulate the
mfspr PVR instruction?  What user space application is using this
instruction?

And why add this extra cruft?  The information is already available to
user applications (one example, /proc/cpuinfo reports the cpu and revision).


Thanks,

Frank
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Frank Rowand <frank_rowand at mvista.com>
MontaVista Software, Inc

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