On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:40:48AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > in the pre-Montecito IPF CPUs. AFAIK, the exact same binary is even > > used both for the Windows and Linux versions of IA32EL. > <snip> > The rest of the ia32-el package is open source ... which should > provide enough documentation on how the OS-level code interfaces > to the instruction execution engine to allow it to be replaced. > Possibly a stupid question, but I couldn't find any information in the (afaik) only released Montecito documentation (the Optimization guide). Has the br.ia completer been removed from the architecture? Or will it generate a trap which can be caught and the translator invoked? The doc only references added insns, not those removed from the arch. Cheers, Kyle - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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