On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:17:24AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Excerpts from Segher Boessenkool's message of May 25, 2022 4:32 am:
> > Linux runs on ISA 1.xx and ISA 2.01 machines still. "Category" wasn't
> > invented for either yet either, but similar concepts did exist of
> > course.
>
> No
Excerpts from Segher Boessenkool's message of May 25, 2022 4:32 am:
> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:52:00AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Nicholas Piggin:
>>
>> > +2. Facilities
>> > +-
>> > +The Power ISA uses the term "facility" to describe a class of
>> > instructions,
>> > +regis
Finally got some details about the icache snoop question so just coming
back to this now, sorry for the delay... (POWER10 does support the
coherent icache flush sequence as expected, there was some updates to
the UM wording but that will be fixed).
Excerpts from Segher Boessenkool's message of M
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:52:00AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Nicholas Piggin:
>
> > +2. Facilities
> > +-
> > +The Power ISA uses the term "facility" to describe a class of instructions,
> > +registers, interrupts, etc. The presence or absence of a facility indicates
> > +whethe
Hi!
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 07:38:28PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Thanks for all the comments and corrections. It should be nearing the
> point where it is useful now. Yes I do think it would be useful to align
> this more with OpenPOWER docs (and possibly eventually move it into the
> ABI, g
* Nicholas Piggin:
> +2. Facilities
> +-
> +The Power ISA uses the term "facility" to describe a class of instructions,
> +registers, interrupts, etc. The presence or absence of a facility indicates
> +whether this class is available to be used, but the specifics depend on the
> +ISA v
