Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: EduardoS (no.delete@this.spam.com), December 17, 2011 9:03 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) on 12/16/11 wrote:
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>Then, that byte does conditionally have extra stuff at the
>end - usually a case of "modrm and/or immediate". But the
>modrm stuff is actually very regular (and the immediate
>is obviously not complicated). It's just that the regularity
>is "odd" - but it's odd for humans, not so much for some
>digital logic. It's the usual kind of "wires to move bits
>around, with certain bits meaning certain things".
Just by reading your post I saw you forgot SIB and I guess I am forgeting to remeber you of something else too, so it's not THAT easy...
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>Then, that byte does conditionally have extra stuff at the
>end - usually a case of "modrm and/or immediate". But the
>modrm stuff is actually very regular (and the immediate
>is obviously not complicated). It's just that the regularity
>is "odd" - but it's odd for humans, not so much for some
>digital logic. It's the usual kind of "wires to move bits
>around, with certain bits meaning certain things".
Just by reading your post I saw you forgot SIB and I guess I am forgeting to remeber you of something else too, so it's not THAT easy...
