From 4fa43a5b39e84d9755d974183f25f136a902f63a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:55:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update notes on openpower --- openpower.mdwn | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/openpower.mdwn b/openpower.mdwn index 9cb216574..1b85356fc 100644 --- a/openpower.mdwn +++ b/openpower.mdwn @@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ Links Summary -* FP32 is converted to FP64. Requires SV to be active. +* FP32 is converted to FP64. Requires SimpleV to be active. * FP16 needed +* transcendental FP opcodes needed (sin, cos, atan2, root, log1p) * FCVT between 16/32/64 needed * c++11 atomics not very efficient * no 16/48/64 opcodes, needs a shuffle of opcodes. TODO investigate Power VLE @@ -36,15 +37,18 @@ idea: rather than add dozens of new opcodes, add "repurposer" instructions that # Escape Sequencing -Absolutely critical, also to have official endorsement from OpenPower Foundation. +aka "ISAMUX/NS". Absolutely critical, also to have official endorsement +from OpenPower Foundation. This will allow extending ISA (see ISAMUX/NS) in a clean fashion +(including for and by OpenPower Foundation) # Compressed, 48, 64, VBLOCK TODO investigate Power VLE (Freescale doc Ref 314-68105) -Under Esc Seq, move mulli, twi, tdi out of major OP000 then use the entire row, 2 bits instead of 3. +Under Esc Seq, move mulli, twi, tdi out of major OP000 then use the +entire row, 2 bits instead of 3. greatly simplifies decoder. * OP 000-000 and 000-001 for 16 bit compressed, 11 bit instructions * OP 000-010 and 000-011 for 48 bit. 11 bits for SVP P48 @@ -53,7 +57,11 @@ Under Esc Seq, move mulli, twi, tdi out of major OP000 then use the entire row, # Compressed 16 -Only 11 bits. Idea: have "pages" where one instruction selects the page number. It also specifies for how long that page is activated (terminated on a branch) +Further "escape-sequencing". + +Only 11 bits available. Idea: have "pages" where one instruction selects +the page number. It also specifies for how long that page is activated +(terminated on a branch) The length to be a maximum of 4 bits, where 0b1111 indicates "permanently active". -- 2.30.2