Re: kernel bitreverse function

[Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>]

David Laight wrote:

> Indeed, either:
>   ((b * 0x80200802ull) & 0x0884422110ull) * 0x0101010101ull >> 32
> or
>   ((b * 0x0802u & 0x22110u) | (b * 0x8020u & 0x88440u)) * 0x10101u >> 16
> are probably best - probably the 2nd since it avoids a 64x64 multiply.

A nice solution. I like it. Unfortunately the second method doesn't
work for me. It reverses both nibbles of a byte seperately instead of
the whole byte. E.g. from 0x01 it makes 0x08.

Once it works it should probably be in libkern.


> It is also worth allowing for cpus that can have a hardware instruction
> (and then do it in 1 clock!)

Indeed some CPUs can do that. I know that the ColdFire has a bitrev
instruction. Such code can go into libkern/arch.

-- 
Frank Wille