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Re: [PATCH] Add new ppc hwsync extended mnemonic
- From: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 20:30:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new ppc hwsync extended mnemonic
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On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 10:00 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 04:10:28PM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> > Alan, what do you think about changing the default of disassembling
> > "sync 0" to "hwsync"?
>
> I don't like this change for disassembling "classic" code (say, 6xx).
> None of the old docs (or older tools) know about "hwsync" (or "sync 0"
> for that matter). Is there some easy way to keep the old behaviour
> unless (say) disassembling for POWER4 or up?
Ok, I'm fine just enabling it for POWER4 and later, so I committed the patch
with the following change:
+{"hwsync", XSYNC(31,598,0), 0xffffffff, POWER4, BOOKE|PPC476, {0}},
Thanks.
Peter