By: Dresdenboy (M.Waldhauer.delete@this.gmx.de), July 22, 2004 10:32 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
AK (A.Kaiser@gmx.net) on 7/22/04 wrote:
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>>Maybe the RISC86 instruction set patent could help
>>in identifying/analyzing the K8 uOps.
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>IIRC RISC86 relates to Nexgen designs (K6), not to native AMD (K5,K7).
K5 used a A29k like core. But I think, the K7 and K8 micro-Ops are still somewhat similar to RISC86, because they have been designed specifically for this purpose. We could actually look if the instructions, we can find in the microcode patches, are of similar structure or not.
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>>Maybe the RISC86 instruction set patent could help
>>in identifying/analyzing the K8 uOps.
>
>IIRC RISC86 relates to Nexgen designs (K6), not to native AMD (K5,K7).
K5 used a A29k like core. But I think, the K7 and K8 micro-Ops are still somewhat similar to RISC86, because they have been designed specifically for this purpose. We could actually look if the instructions, we can find in the microcode patches, are of similar structure or not.