Subject: Re: ARM bswap optimizations
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm
Date: 08/14/2002 12:11:20
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 01:51:43PM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>
> > The following patch addresses these issues. I'd appreciate it if people
> > would read it over to make sure that I didn't screw up the asm (mostly
> > the constraints :-) I've booted it multi-user on an XScale.
>
> After some feedback from Chris Gilbert and Paul Clifford, here is the
> version I'm going to check in.
Small comment: Please don't call a 16-bit quantity a "word", especially
in ARM-specific code. To ARM hackers, a word is 32 bits.
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Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/acorn26 <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/acorn26/>