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[SPARC][PATCH 0/2] Some improvements for the SPARC opcodes.

David Miller davem@davemloft.net
Fri Oct 17 15:56:00 GMT 2014 
From: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:55:12 +0200

> The following two small patches fix a bug in the sparc opcodes table
> and annotate a few opcodes with the HWCAP2_VIS3B, which is a new
> hardware capability introduced to mark a subset of VIS 3.0
> instructions which are also implemented in the SPARC64 X+ processor.
> 
> Jose E. Marchesi (2):
>   opcodes: fix several misplaced hwcap entries.
>   opcodes, elf: annotate instructions with HWCAP2_VIS3B.

These changes look fine to me.

Just out of curiosity have you tried a Linux kernel build with
these changes installed?

I'm pretty sure that we don't actually use %sys_tick et al.
and instead use %asrNN, but if there is any code out there
depending upon this mis-marked instructions it is better
to find out now rather than later.
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