Dcbz vs dcbzl

[Segher Boessenkool]

> On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 05:32, David Ober wrote:
>>   Is anyone working on the compile/assembler to support the dcbzl
>> instruction.

On 25-mrt-04, at 0:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> I'll try to put my hand on some binutils folks, but in general, such a
> request should be posted to binutils mailing lists.

That has already been done, and I wrote a patch:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-03/msg00502.html

> Note that the proper fix is for code to use the cache line size as
> provided by the ELF AUX tables by the kernel to any launched
> executable,

Yep, all that, etc.  For Linux, we should just fix broken code, we
have access to all source code after all.  We don't need this weird
"combatibility to incompatible code" mode.  Of course, if you only
have binary code...  well we pity you ;-)


Segher


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