Steve Ellcey <steve.ell...@imgtec.com> writes:
> From: Maciej W. Rozycki [ma...@codesourcery.com]
>
>>  Steve, would you therefore please do us a favour and check what the AVP
>> for MIPS32r2 requires for support of the floating-point MADD instruction
>> subset, or preferably, the whole COP1X instruction set?  Are these
>> instructions only mandatory for a 64-bit FPU (CP1.FIR.F64 == 1), or do
>> they have to be included in all FPU implementations
>
> Maciej,
>
> I checked with one of the AVP engineers and he said:
>
> "madd/msub/nmadd/nmsub.fmt instructions are required for all release 2
> implementations,
> whether or not that implementation has a 64 bit fpu. They are also
> required for mips64
> release 1 implementations.  The AVPs check for this."

Steve, thanks for checking.

Maciej, in that case, the rest of the patch is OK for 4.9, thanks.

Richard

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