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binutils and G5/ppc970


From: Chris Friesen
Subject: binutils and G5/ppc970
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:16:54 -0400
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The 970 has a new instruction, called "dcbzl". It is exactly like "dcbz", except that it operations on 128-byte cachelines unconditionally, while "dcbz" operates on 32/128 byte cachelines depending on a particular processor-specific bit.

The "dcbzl" instruction is distinguished from "dcbz" by the fact that the 10th bit (in IBM's nomenclature where the high order bit is bit zero) is set.

ie:

dcbz  0x7c0007ec
dcbzi 0x7c2007ec

I don't know enough about binutils to actually submit the proper patch.

Chris








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