[PATCH] powerpc xmon: drop the option `i` in cacheflush

Balamuruhan S bala24 at linux.ibm.com
Tue Mar 24 17:08:14 AEDT 2020


On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 07:46 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 04:55:48PM +0530, Balamuruhan S wrote:
> > Data Cache Block Invalidate (dcbi) instruction implemented in 32-bit
> > designs prior to PowerPC architecture version 2.01 and got obsolete
> > from version 2.01.
> 
> It was added back in 2.03.  It also exists in 64-bit designs (using
> category embedded), in 2.07 still even.

I got to know about the version from,
https://wiki.alcf.anl.gov/images/f/fb/PowerPC_-_Assembly_-_IBM_Programming_Environment_2.3.pdf

please correct me if I was looking into wrong one.

-- Bala 
> 
> 
> Segher



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