[OT?] Unimplemented instructions on a G5?

[Pantelis Antoniou]

Segher Boessenkool wrote:

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>> The offending instruction is the seemingly harmless:
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>>  mcrxr crX
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>>   (Move to condition register from XER).
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>> Does anyone have any idea if IBM left this instruction
>> unimplemented. Searching the docs I've found nothing.
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> Well, the newest PowerPC architecture docs say that it is
> an optional insn, i.e., not all cpus might implement it.
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> I can't say whether the 970 implements it or not.
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> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/pdfs/archpub1.pdf
> Chapter 6.
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Thanks this was the information I needed. Actually it's only
the mcrxr instruction that's unimplemented. Just my luck :-)

>> If it is unimplemented any idea of how hard it will be to
>> trap and emulate it?
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> In Linux?
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> Last time I did this, it was easy.  Can't seem to find the
> patch right now, though.
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> Emulating will be slow, of course (but I think you know that).
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> Segher
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Regards

Pantelis


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