Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] PPC: Enable hint bits for lwarx/ldarx

2010-09-11 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 11.09.2010 um 03:08 schrieb Alexander Graf: The lwarx and ldarx instructions have a bit to give some hint to the CPU which is safe to ignore. We currently refuse to accept any instruction with that bit set, as it used to be declared MBZ. Let's remove the reserved bit and make the instruct

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] PPC: Enable hint bits for lwarx/ldarx

2010-09-10 Thread Alexander Graf
The lwarx and ldarx instructions have a bit to give some hint to the CPU which is safe to ignore. We currently refuse to accept any instruction with that bit set, as it used to be declared MBZ. Let's remove the reserved bit and make the instruction work as expected. This fixes Linux boot for ppc64