On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:12:46 +0200
Gábor Stefanik <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Francesco Gringoli
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Larry and Michael,
> >
> > I did some testing with the firmware and discovered the meaning of a few
> > instructions that are currently marked either as "unknown jump" on the
> > bcm-specs site or do not appear at all. I chose some names but maybe you
> > have better ideas regard them.
> >
> > Here is a brief description of the instructions I'm talking about and a
> > set of patches for b43-tools to enable proper dis/assembly.
> >
> > Regards,
> > -Francesco
> >
> > -------------=--------------
> > Description of the new instructions
> >
> > Opcode 0x0D6: jumps if the difference between op1 and op2 is negative.
> > Suggested name "jdn" (jump if difference is negative).
> 
> I'd suggest following the x86 convention, and calling it "jl".

Well, no. We already have a jump-if-less.
That reminds me that I already looked into these new instructions once and
they seemed quite strange to me.
Francesco, are you really sure your analysis on the instructions is correct?
My _guess_ was that they don't work on two's complement. But that was only
a guess and I didn't continue research on that.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.

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