Re: [COMMITTED] PowerPC: Add support for RFC02653 - Dense Math Facility

[Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>]

On 11/2/22 20:25, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On 11/2/22 1:41 PM, Tom de Vries wrote:
>> On 11/2/22 19:32, Peter Bergner wrote:
>>> On 11/2/22 1:27 PM, Tom de Vries wrote:
>>>> The disassembly shows:
>>>> ...
>>>>      0x000000000000063c <+1596>:  pmdmxvbf16ger2 a4,vs0,vs1,0,0,0^M
>>>> ...
>>>> while the test expects pmxvbf16ger2.
>>>
>>> Yes, Carl notified me of the fallout.  I gave him a patch that updates
>>> the expected output to look for the new name.  Carl has agreed to
>>> shepherd the patch to fix the fallout.
>>
>> Could someone explain why that is the right solution?
>>
>> I don't see any dm<n> registers in the instruction "pmxvbf16ger2 a4,vs0,vs1,0,0,0".
>>
>> Why then should the pmdmxvbf16ger2 name be used?
> 
> a4 (ie, accumulator register 4) is a DMR register...more specifically,
> half of a DMR register.  The two RFCs which I pushed support for changed
> the "official" ISA mnemonic to the *dm* name because that is more
> architecturally correct.  We kept the old names as extended mnemonics,
> so the only visible change to users is that the disassembly behavior
> has changed, hence the need for the change to the expected output.

Understood, thanks for the explanation.

- Tom