Messages in this thread | | | From | Eric Bohm <> | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:42:14 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | PATCH: (on Alpha) emulating missing instructions |
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>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Deller <luked@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:
Luke> Daniel & I tried to run Loki's new beta version of Luke> Civilization Call to Power for alpha linux on a multia (ev4 Luke> alpha). We got an illegal instruction exception. We Luke> discovered that it was compiled for ev6, and so contained Luke> instructions not supported by our CPU.
Luke> So we have patched the linux kernel to emulate the Luke> instructions we needed. These instructions are: - byte/word Luke> load/store instructions (ldbu,stb,ldwu,stw) - some Luke> multimedia instructions (minsw, maxsw, minuw, maxuw, minsb, Luke> maxsb, minub, maxub)
Good work.
The same problem happens on my EV56. Would you expect your patch to work there also? Or are there EV5 elements that I should expect to be issues?
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