[PATCH] S/390: Add support for the new IBM zEnterprise 196

[Martin Schwidefsky]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:30:26 +0200
"Andreas Krebbel" <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> the attached patch adds support for the latest release of the IBM
> mainframe series - the IBM zEnterprise 196 (z196) - to the Binutils
> package.
> 
> The new -march=z196 option can be used to assemble code for the new
> machine.
> 
> Documentation can be downloaded from here:
> 
> z/Architecture Principles of Operation:
> http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zr008.pdf
> 
> z/Architecture Reference Summary:
> http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zs006.pdf
> 
> Highlights (from an instruction set perspective):
> 
> * out-of-order pipeline architecture
> * conditional load/store instructions
> * new 3 register operand instructions
> * instructions using the upper 32 bit register halfs independently
> * population count instruction counting the 1-bits in a register
> * new atomic instructions
> 
> No testsuite regressions.
> 
> Ok to apply?

Yes, go ahead.

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   Martin.

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