On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:22:04PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > probably nothing, but having a generic decision whether we need > a version with j or jr will help other platforms as well. Why make > AR7 a special case ? The destination is potencially outside the range of the j instruction. Which is something that reasonably be expected on other systems as well. One scenario for example is having a few k of RAM at phys 0 then the rest starting at 256MB phys. It's somewhat easier with an ebase register of course but older cores don't have that. Ralf
