Could you please tell me the specific related locations in the source code,
such as the block “decode OPCODE default Unknown::unknown(){}” in
src\arch\alpha\isa\decoder.isa? Because I am not familiar with the structure
of the program. Thank you.

KJ

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Gabe Black <[email protected]> wrote:

> The file you'd modify is src/arch/alpha/isa/decoder.isa. The syntax for
> this file is found on the wiki here:
>
> http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/The_M5_ISA_description_language
>
> When adding a blob for your instruction, you'll probably want to put the
> bits from the actual source and destination registers into intermediate
> arrays so that their components can be manipulated individually. Then, once
> you've computed the output, you'd take the value from the intermediate
> result array and move it into the destination register. The way the parser
> identifies sources and destinations is that anything to the left of an
> equals sign is considered a destination, and anything else is considered a
> source. Its easiest to make sure the parser understands what your doing even
> with complex operations like this by using intermediate variables and
> reading and writing what the parser sees as operands with nice, clean
> assignments. This also means you won't really be able to use, for instance,
> memcpy since the destination will be a function argument and look like a
> source even though it's being written to.
>
> Gabe
>
>
> On 03/09/11 19:49, K J wrote:
>
>   Hi All,
>
> Could you please tell me if I want to add a special instruction into the
> Alpha ISA, which files and functions I need to modify? The M5 version is
> “m5-stable-f299139501f7”. The instruction like an addition of two vectors:
> VVADD Va, Vb, Vc
> For (i=0; i<128, i++) {
>     Vc[i]=Va[i]+Vb[i];
> }
> Thank you.
>
> KJ
>
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