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Subject: Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v2 0/4] POWER9 TCG enablements - BCD functions part I
From: joserz () linux ! vnet ! ibm ! com
Date: 2016-10-31 17:34:19
Message-ID: 20161031173419.GA15738 () pacoca
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:37:35PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 03:18:00PM -0200, Jose Ricardo Ziviani wrote:
> > v2:
> > - implements all fixes and suggestions
>
> Ok, I think the implementations are correct now, but there is still
> some polish necessary - comments on the individual patches.
Thanks again for reviewing it, learned a lot in this process. Really
appreciated.
>
> I have to wonder what the chip designers were smoking to put into a
> 2016 CPU special instructions for handling obscure decimal formats
> that appear to be from the EBCDIC era. Still, if they're in the
> silicon, I guess we need to put them in qemu as well.
my guess is to have improvements to run/convert cobol (db2?) programs,
just a guess :D
>
> --
> David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code
> david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_
> | _way_ _around_!
> http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
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