Re: unaligned load in branch delay slot

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:30:03PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  Actually I have a datasheet for the Vr4121 (which is a Vr4120 plus some
> glue logic for specific peripherals) and it explicitly states whenever
> cp0.EPC points to a preceding branch/jump of a faulting instruction, the
> cp0.Cause.BD bit is set.  Maybe there is an errata sheet available.

Honestly I'd not expect this to be documented in a NEC manual - they
basically look like the description of the processor core is the same for
basically all the Vr4xxx processors and SOCs.

>  Additionally the processor is "nice" enough to implement the MIPS III ISA
> (with the MIPS16 extension) except ll/sc, lld/scd, sigh...  So the
> emulation would need to be ported to the 64-bit kernel if we were to
> support this processor in the 64-bit mode. 

Maximum agreement on the "sigh" part ...

  Ralf


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