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From: joserz@linux.vnet.ibm.com
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] POWER9 TCG enablements - BCD functions part I
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:34:19 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161031173419.GA15738@pacoca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161031023735.GH18226@umbus.fritz.box>

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

> 
> -- 
> David Gibson			| I'll have my music baroque, and my code
> david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au	| minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ _other_
> 				| _way_ _around_!
> http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson

      reply	other threads:[~2016-10-31 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-28 17:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] POWER9 TCG enablements - BCD functions part I Jose Ricardo Ziviani
2016-10-28 17:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] target-ppc: Implement bcdcfn. instruction Jose Ricardo Ziviani
2016-10-31  0:02   ` David Gibson
2016-10-28 17:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] target-ppc: Implement bcdctn. instruction Jose Ricardo Ziviani
2016-10-31  0:15   ` David Gibson
2016-10-28 17:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] target-ppc: Implement bcdcfz. instruction Jose Ricardo Ziviani
2016-10-31  2:28   ` David Gibson
2016-10-28 17:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] target-ppc: Implement bcdctz. instruction Jose Ricardo Ziviani
2016-10-31  2:34   ` David Gibson
2016-10-31  2:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] POWER9 TCG enablements - BCD functions part I David Gibson
2016-10-31 17:34   ` joserz [this message]

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