[mips patch rfa] slight tweak to vr5400 "mul" opcode

Eric Christopher echristo@redhat.com
Sat Apr 5 00:56:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 16:45, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> At Sat, 5 Apr 2003 00:11:30 +0000 (UTC), "Eric Christopher" wrote:
> > > any reason the following patch shouldn't be applied?
> > 
> > Yup. For the 5432 only 3 operand is correct. Don't ask me, I didn't
> > write the spec.
> 
> Err, really?
> 
> I ask because, upon seeing your msg, i just found and downloaded a
> 5432 spec (i'd previously been looking at a 5464 spec 8-) from:
> 
> 	http://www.necelam.com/docs/files/1375_V2.pdf
> 
> On page 484, where it describes the MUL instruction, it gives no such
> restriction...

Right. I correlated that with the 5500 documentation that states that
the mul instruction "has 5432 compatibility as well as two-operand..."
or something of the sort.

-eric




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