got it. Thanks Dan! Neil Dan Malek wrote: > > Neil Horman wrote: > > > ..... My question is, why is this not the case for the > > 8XX series as well? > > The behavior of this instruction during faults and exceptions has often > been incorrect and the different silicon revisions behave differently. > Rather than track all of the different silicon variants, install and > test all of the patches, it is easier to just not use it. > > > .... I'm asking because I'm testing a modifed kernel in which > > we use the dcbz instruction rather than 4 stores, and we curious as to what > > consequences I might expect. > > You are probably experiencing them :-). > > -- Dan >
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