netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/7] mips: uasm: Add workaround for Loongson-2F nop CPU errata

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Date:   Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:00:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
To:     Johan Almbladh <johan.almbladh@...finetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] mips: uasm: Add workaround for Loongson-2F nop CPU
 errata

On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, Johan Almbladh wrote:

> This patch implements a workaround for the Loongson-2F nop in generated,
> code, if the existing option CONFIG_CPU_NOP_WORKAROUND is set. Before,
> the binutils option -mfix-loongson2f-nop was enabled, but no workaround
> was done when emitting MIPS code. Now, the nop pseudo instruction is
> emitted as "or ax,ax,zero" instead of the default "sll zero,zero,0". This

 Confusing typo here, s/ax/at/.

  Maciej