Re: [PATCH] PR59909, Fix powerpcle64 power8 bootstrap (quad memory support)

2014-01-23 Thread Michael Meissner
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 01:58:15PM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote: > The patch is okay, but please clarify the sync.md ChangeLog to mention > what you did for the patterns, like new patterns, new attrs, which > patterns are changed to swap double words in LE mode. In looking to write better comments,

Re: [PATCH] PR59909, Fix powerpcle64 power8 bootstrap (quad memory support)

2014-01-23 Thread David Edelsohn
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Michael Meissner wrote: > The current trunk will not bootstrap on a powerpcle64 power8 box if > --with-cpu=power8 is selected. This has been traced down to the fact that we > did not swap the double words when we used the quad memory instructions. > > In this patc

[PATCH] PR59909, Fix powerpcle64 power8 bootstrap (quad memory support)

2014-01-22 Thread Michael Meissner
The current trunk will not bootstrap on a powerpcle64 power8 box if --with-cpu=power8 is selected. This has been traced down to the fact that we did not swap the double words when we used the quad memory instructions. In this patch, I split the ISA 2.07 quad memory support into two parts, one for