[[!tag standards]]
-Attempt at reducing the number of different instructions used for int/fp moves.
+Attempt at [reducing the number of different instructions](#reduced-instruction-list) used for int/fp moves.
IMPORTANT: don't merge until everyone's had a chance to review it.
+## tables for reduced instruction list
+
+| S_AND_RC | PowerISA naming scheme |
+|----------|------------------------|
+| 0 | `fmvtg` |
+| 1 | `fmvtg.` |
+| 2 | `fmvtgs` |
+| 3 | `fmvtgs.` |
+
+| INT_MODE | PowerISA naming scheme | Integer Type |
+|----------|------------------------|-----------------|
+| 0 | `fcvtfgw[s][.]` | signed 32-bit |
+| 1 | `fcvtfguw[s][.]` | unsigned 32-bit |
+| 2 | `fcvtfgd[s][.]` | signed 64-bit |
+| 3 | `fcvtfgud[s][.]` | unsigned 64-bit |
+
+## reduced instruction list <a name="reduced-instruction-list"></a>
+
+| old | new | notes |
+|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
+| `fmvis FRS, D` | `fmvis FRS, D` | submitted to ISA WG so don't modify |
+| `fishmv FRS, D` | `fishmv FRS, D` | submitted to ISA WG so don't modify |
+| `fmvtg[s][.] RT, FRA` | `fmvtg RT, FRA, S_AND_RC` | goes against PowerISA naming scheme |
+| `fmvfg[s][.] FRT, RA` | `fmvfg FRT, RA, S_AND_RC` | goes against PowerISA naming scheme |
+| `fcvtfg[u][w/d][s][.] FRT, RA` | `fcvtfg FRT, RA, S_AND_RC, INT_MODE` | goes against PowerISA naming scheme |
+| `fcvt[s]tg[u][w/d][.] RT, FRA, Mode` | `fcvttg RT, FRA, Mode, S_AND_RC, INT_MODE` | goes against PowerISA naming scheme |
+
+Notes:
+* PowerISA uses `s` and `.` suffixes instead of an immediate for Single and Rc=1 modes respectively.
+* PowerISA uses `w`, `uw`, `d`, and `ud` suffixes instead of an immediate for selecting between unsigned/signed 32-bit/64-bit.
+
+About the only operations we can realistically remove are Rc=1 versions, however imho that isn't necessary.
+
+Realistically we can't remove any of the Rc=0 instructions because it would make the instruction set non-orthogonal and it would penalize the code using those operations, almost all of which are quite common.
+
+Attempting to condense them into 6 instructions by undoing the PowerISA naming scheme works, but all that changed is the assembler mnemonics (in a bad way by being inconsistent with PowerISA), the instruction encodings don't change at all, unless we want to use an expanded opcode.
+
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# FPR-to-GPR and GPR-to-FPR