[PATCH 0/4] x86: opcode table tidying

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Thu Jan 6 14:56:23 GMT 2022


On 06.01.2022 15:31, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 5:52 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 06.01.2022 14:47, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 5:24 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 05.01.2022 15:58, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 12:20:05PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> 1: templatize FMA insn templates
>>>>>> 2: drop some "comm" template parameters
>>>>>> 3: drop NoAVX from POPCNT
>>>>>> 4: drop NoAVX insn attribute
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> OK for all.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. I've committed the series, but I wonder whether you have an
>>>> opinion on the SSE4a aspect mentioned in the last patch.
>>>
>>> Do you have a patch?
>>
>> A patch to do what, exactly? (IOW: In order to perhaps make a patch, I
>> need to understand what the intentions are.)
> 
> Please open a bug report to describe the issue.

I guess I'll give up here. I can't know whether there's a bug without
knowing what the intentions are. Documentation also isn't sufficiently
clear / unambiguous. And I'm not willing to abuse bugzilla for having
a discussion; that's what I thought the mailing list is for.

Jan



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