From 5cd0c180b00d4d16d121f9ed5ee922697d54a955 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 19:35:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn index c4f507c81..bacaf933c 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/SimpleV_rationale.mdwn @@ -248,3 +248,13 @@ Engine. The only reason that the team did not take this forward into a commercial product was because they could not work out how to cleanly do OoO multi-issue at the time. + +In its simplest form, then, this "prefixing" idea is a matter +of: + +* Defining the format of the prefix +* Adding a `setvl` instruction +* Adding SPRs and working out how to do context-switches +* Writing an awful lot of Specification Documentation + (4 years and counting) + -- 2.30.2