[LLVMdev] LLVM and newlib progress

[Pertti Kellomäki]

John Criswell kirjoitti:
> So a particular instruction actually specifies where in the
> miroarchitecture a particular piece of data should go.  Directing it to
> a specific functional unit makes it do I/O.  Right?

Yes. For each transport bus inside the processor, there is a slice
in each instruction that specifies how data is transported on the bus.
Computation occurs as a side-effect of data transports. This includes
loads and stores to data memory, and I/O as well.

> If you read about something in the LLVA-OS paper and have questions on
> it, please feel free to ask.

Will do!
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Pertti