Re: OT - MIPS idle loop

2007-11-24 Thread Miod Vallat (on the road)
> In x86 I know (or think I know) that the idle loop is implemented with the > HALT command. I could not find any HALT command in MIPS assembly. R5000 and above have a ``wait'' instruction which achieves this. > I tried to read the idle loop in MIPS asm, but as I don't know mips > assembly I co

Re: OT - MIPS idle loop

2007-11-24 Thread Ted Unangst
On 11/24/07, Dan Shechter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In x86 I know (or think I know) that the idle loop is implemented with > the HALT command. I could not find any HALT command in MIPS assembly. > > I tried to read the idle loop in MIPS asm, but as I don't know mips > assembly I could not follow