Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] POWER9 TCG enablements - BCD functions part I

[joserz]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:37:35PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 03:18:00PM -0200, Jose Ricardo Ziviani wrote:
> > v2:
> >  - implements all fixes and suggestions
> 
> Ok, I think the implementations are correct now, but there is still
> some polish necessary - comments on the individual patches.

Thanks again for reviewing it, learned a lot in this process. Really
appreciated.
> 
> I have to wonder what the chip designers were smoking to put into a
> 2016 CPU special instructions for handling obscure decimal formats
> that appear to be from the EBCDIC era.  Still, if they're in the
> silicon, I guess we need to put them in qemu as well.

my guess is to have improvements to run/convert cobol (db2?) programs,
just a guess :D

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