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Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/evbmips/gdium



Matt Thomas wrote:

> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: matt
> Date:         Mon Aug 17 18:57:34 UTC 2009
> 
> Modified Files:
> 
>       src/sys/arch/evbmips/gdium: machdep.c
> 
> Log Message:
> 
> Use mips3_sd instead of two 32bit stores.

Any reason for this?  The two reg stores will be faster because of no
function call.

The main (only?) user of mips3_{sd,ld} was the bcm1xxx CPUs which had
some device regs that didn't work with 32-bit load/store and needed a
64-bit load/store.

Cheers,
Simon.


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