Bug 308 - POWER variable-length encoding scheme needed
Summary: POWER variable-length encoding scheme needed
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Libre-SOC's first SoC
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Specification (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: --- enhancement
Assignee: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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Reported: 2020-05-13 10:37 BST by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Modified: 2020-09-21 03:47 BST (History)
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Description Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 2020-05-13 10:37:52 BST
instruction stream order needs to be sorted out so that the proposed
Compressed/48/64/VBLOCK encoding will fit.  currently, LE on POWER
is wholly unsuited to variable-length ISA encoding due to the opcode
being at the wrong end of a sequential instruction byte stream

https://libre-soc.org/openpower/

http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/2020-May/006553.html
Comment 1 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 2020-05-13 10:38:44 BST
note, not to be confused with bug #238 which is *actual* compressed
(16-bit) instruction encodings.