Re: [PATCH, powerpc] Rework#2 VSX scalar floating point support, patch #5

2013-10-17 Thread Michael Meissner
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 08:59:50PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote: Please use VMX instead of AV, not because I am pedantic about IBM's name for the feature, but AV is meaningless to me and anyone else reading the code. If you need a three-letter name, use VMX. Okay with that change. I just

Re: [PATCH, powerpc] Rework#2 VSX scalar floating point support, patch #5

2013-10-16 Thread Michael Meissner
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 08:59:50PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote: Please use VMX instead of AV, not because I am pedantic about IBM's name for the feature, but AV is meaningless to me and anyone else reading the code. If you need a three-letter name, use VMX. Okay with that change. I can

Re: [PATCH, powerpc] Rework#2 VSX scalar floating point support, patch #5

2013-10-16 Thread David Edelsohn
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Michael Meissner meiss...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 08:59:50PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote: Please use VMX instead of AV, not because I am pedantic about IBM's name for the feature, but AV is meaningless to me and anyone else reading the

Re: [PATCH, powerpc] Rework#2 VSX scalar floating point support, patch #5

2013-10-14 Thread David Edelsohn
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Michael Meissner meiss...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On this patch, I add some infrastructure to say whether a given mode can go in a general purpose register, floating point register, or altivec register, and if it can, what kinds of addressing is legal for the

Re: [PATCH, powerpc] Rework#2 VSX scalar floating point support, patch #5

2013-10-07 Thread Michael Meissner
On this patch, I add some infrastructure to say whether a given mode can go in a general purpose register, floating point register, or altivec register, and if it can, what kinds of addressing is legal for the mode. In addition, I have switched to using memset to setup the arrays indexed by mode.