Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-ppc: Little Endian Correction to Load/Store Vector Element

[Alexander Graf]

On 25.09.2013, at 09:42, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> From: Tom Musta <address@hidden>
> 
> The Load Vector Element (lve*x) and Store Vector Element (stve*x)
> instructions not only byte-swap in Little Endian mode, they also
> invert the element that is accessed. For example, the RTL for
> lvehx contains this:
> 
>     eb <-- EA[60:63]
>     if Big-Endian byte ordering then
>         VRT[8*eb:8*eb+15] <-- MEM(EA,2)
>     else
>         VRT[112-(8*eb):127-(8*eb)] <-- MEM(EA,2)
> 
> This patch adds the element inversion, as described in the last line
> of the RTL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Musta <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Anton Blanchard <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to ppc-next.

For the future, you probably want to make this a SoB instead of a Reviewed-by 
line :).


Alex