Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/15] target-sparc improvements

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> The two main goals in this patch set are:
>   * Make use of the new MO_ALIGN_* flags, to allow less use of check_align,
>     and support partially misaligned fp memory ops.
>   * More cleanups for ASIs, in the end using the new atomic ops.
>
> Changes since v2:
>   * Rebased on master with the atomic patches merged; one minor conflict 
> fixed.
>   * In patch 11, move and simplify address_mask.  It's no longer used
>     at all by sparc32 and clang warned about the unused inline function.
>
> Changes since v1:
>   * The "Remove asi helper code handled inline" patch retains the code within
>     ldda to handle asis that must be handled out of line.  This fixes the
>     FreeBSD 10.3 boot problem.  While the UA2007 spec (and thus sun4v?) 
> doesn't
>     allow for such, it would seem that US2 hardware does.

What ASI was failing? It may still be a part of sun4v CPUs if it's
described in UST1/UST2 supplements.
I think some instructions didn't make it into UA20xx standard specs
because of some Sun patents


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Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

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