Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/evbmips/gdium

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Aug 19, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Simon Burge wrote:

> Matt Thomas wrote:
>
> > Module Name:    src
> > Committed By:   matt
> > Date:           Mon Aug 17 18:57:34 UTC 2009
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >
> >         src/sys/arch/evbmips/gdium: machdep.c
> >
> > Log Message:
> >
> > Use mips3_sd instead of two 32bit stores.
>
> Any reason for this?  The two reg stores will be faster because of no
> function call.
>
> The main (only?) user of mips3_{sd,ld} was the bcm1xxx CPUs which had
> some device regs that didn't work with 32-bit load/store and needed a
> 64-bit load/store.

2 32-bit stores didn't work.  a 64-bit one did. :)