Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] SH: Add prefi, icbi, synco

[Paul Brook]

On Monday 20 October 2008, Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Paul Brook <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Doing fine grained features isn't that
> > hard. MIPS, sparc, arm, ppc, m68k and sparc already do this.
>
> So let's say someone finds some unprotected use of some ARM
> instructions, should that be reported and is there any hope the
> patch will ever be considered by the maintainer of the ARM target?
> (Examples are ldrex/strex and ubfx/sbfx.)

Yes.

> Also what about undetected undefined instructions which I asked
> about last May?
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-05/msg00844.html
>
> Given the lack of answer at that time, I thought it didn't matter.  I now
> see I was wrong.  It's a pity communication is almost impossible.

Rejecting incorrect patches is always easier than verifying that patches are 
correct.

Paul