Re: [Qemu-arm] [RFC 00/23] target/arm: decode generator and initial sve patches

[Richard Henderson]

On 01/11/2018 11:27 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 11 January 2018 at 19:23, Richard Henderson
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 01/11/2018 09:56 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 18 December 2017 at 17:45, Richard Henderson
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> The most important part here, for review, is the first patch.
>>>>
>>>> I add a code generator, writen in python, which takes an input file
>>>> that describes the opcode bits and field bits of the instructions,
>>>> and outputs a function that does all of the decoding.
>>>>
>>>> The subsequent patches begin to add SVE support and also demonstrate
>>>> how I envision how both the decoder and the tcg host vector support
>>>> are to be used.  Thus, review of the direction would be appreciated
>>>> before there are another 100 patches along the same style.
>>>
>>> This doesn't apply to master -- do you have an example of
>>> what the generated code comes out like?
>>
>> That's why I gave you a link to a buildable branch on Tuesday.
> 
> tgt-arm-cplx ? I had a look at that but it seemed to be a different
> set of patches to this lot.

No, tgt-arm-sve-{1,2,3}.  All of them should build.

tgt-arm-cplx is the armv8.{1,3} stuff that's waiting on fp16 to go in.


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