Alex Williamson wrote on Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:17 AM > On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:04 -0700, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > > > > I would also like to take this opportunity to revamp feature string. > > It is way too long, and should be either two or three letter acronym > > like x86: > > > > X86 feature string: "flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce ... " > > > > - features : branchlong, 16-byte atomic ops > > + features : lb ao > > On the down side, I find that I sometimes have to go look in the > code to figure out which flags I care about on x86. Are "lb" and "ao" > defined somewhere? I thought the x86 acronym was taken straight out of SDM, refer to CPUID instruction detail there. We should do the same on ia64. Section 3.1.11 out of SDM volume 1: field bit description lb 0 long branch (brl) instructions. sd 1 spontaneous deferral ao 2 16-byte atomic operations rv 63:3 Reserved. It's only my wishful thinking. The acronym should be improved a bit to be more creative and meaningful in its current form. Oh well. - : 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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