Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:46:34 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT] Sparc |
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:24 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > With special guest sparc64 assembler hacker, Paul E. McKenney.
Oh christ. You're teaching *more* people about sparc64?
Where will it end?
That said, Looking at the patch, it looks a bit dubious. Why does the
cmp %l1, 0
instruction remain, even if the conditional branch was deleted? I'm not seeing any subsequent uses of %icc, but hey, I'm no sparc expert (nor do I want to be).
Linus
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