From 00e355f699b0f85224d0de49e2f28f1644008618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:15:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/16_bit_compressed.mdwn | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/16_bit_compressed.mdwn b/openpower/sv/16_bit_compressed.mdwn index acab56f18..03e5125dd 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/16_bit_compressed.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/16_bit_compressed.mdwn @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ See: This one is a conundrum. OpenPOWER ISA was never designed with 16 bit in mind. VLE was added 10 years ago but only by way of marking -an entire 64k page as "VLE". With no means to mix 32 bit and 16 bit, -jumping between the two would have been painful and taken up space. +an entire 64k page as "VLE". With VLE not maintained it is not +fully compatible with current PowerISA. Here, in order to embed 16 bit into a predominantly 32 bit stream the overhead of using an entire 16 bits just to switch into Compressed mode -- 2.30.2