On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:25:38AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote: > For an instruction supported on all variants (both BookE and E500) > with a double precision FPU.
I think you have your terminology switched. E500 is (very approximately) an implementation of Book E; the FPR-based FPU is usually called "classic FP" and dates back long before Book E, at least to the 601. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery