Blackfin patch: Work around some more hardware anomalies
Mark Mitchell
mark@codesourcery.com
Mon Jul 11 20:49:00 GMT 2005
Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> This patch renames a target option for clarity, and adds a new one to
> work around another hardware erratum. CSYNC/SSYNC instructions are not
> supposed to occur too soon after predicted not taken conditional
> branches, or at destinations of predicted taken conditional branches.
>
> Mark, as a target maintainer, am I free to check in changes like this on
> the 4.0 branch even though it is not a regression fix?
Yes.
For non-primary targets, I'm particularly lenient, but I do expect you
to use your judgement to apply only critical changes, and not generic
"nice to have" changes.
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Mark Mitchell
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