kernel oops due to unaligned access with lswi

Hollis Blanchard hollisb at us.ibm.com
Thu Nov 20 09:06:15 EST 2003


On Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003, at 15:51 US/Central, linas at austin.ibm.com
wrote:
> Just curious,  these insn's used to be freinds, not enemies.

I think they've always been the enemy of the CPU designers. At least
that's how it was explained to me from a Motorolan, and I assume the
same is true for IBM. And they're the ones writing the CPU manuals
telling people not to use the instructions... :)

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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