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The LUT instructions that I implemented before were just for\nSME2, but FEAT_LUT is more that that. Not really relevant to reviewing the\nFP8 stuff, but something else that needs doing before enabling FEAT_FP8 at\nthe end.\n\nThere are lots more FP8 extensions, but this is large enough already.\n\n\nr~\n\n\nRichard Henderson (37):\n target/arm: Implement ID_AA64ISAR3\n target/arm: Implement FEAT_FAMINMAX for AdvSIMD\n target/arm: Implement FEAT_FAMINMAX for SME\n target/arm: Implement FEAT_FAMINMAX for SVE\n target/arm: Enable FEAT_FAMINMAX for -cpu max\n target/arm: Update SCR bits for Arm ARM M.a.a\n target/arm: Update HCRX bits for Arm ARM M.a.a\n target/arm: Introduce FPMR\n target/arm: Update SCTLR bits for FEAT_FPMR\n target/arm: Enable EnFPM bits for FEAT_FPMR\n target/arm: Clear FPMR on ResetSVEState\n target/arm: Add FPMR_EL to TBFLAGS\n target/arm: Trap direct acceses to FPMR\n target/arm: Enable FEAT_FPMR for -cpu max\n target/arm: Implement ID_AA64FPFR0\n target/arm: Add isar_feature_aa64_f8cvt\n target/arm: Implement FSCALE for AdvSIMD\n target/arm: Implement FSCALE for SME\n fpu: Add scalbn argument to fp8 conversion routines\n fpu: Add conversions between float16 and float8 formats\n target/arm: Split vector-type.h from cpu.h\n target/arm: Move vectors_overlap to vec_internal.h\n target/arm: Implement BF1CVTL, BF1CVTL2, BF2CVTL, BF2CVTL2 for AdvSIMD\n target/arm: Implement BF1CVT, BF1CVTLT, BF2CVT, BF2CVTLT for SVE\n target/arm: Rename SME BFCVT patterns to BFCVT_hs\n target/arm: Implement BF1CVT, BF1CVTL, BF2CVT, BF2CVTL for SME\n target/arm: Implement F1CVTL, F1CVTL2, F2CVTL, F2CVTL2 for AdvSIMD\n target/arm: Implement F1CVT, F1CVTLT, F2CVT, F2CVTLT for SVE\n target/arm: Implement F1CVT, F1CVTL, F2CVT, F2CVTL for SME\n target/arm: Implement BFCVTN for SVE\n target/arm: Implement FCVTN (16- to 8-bit fp) for AdvSIMD\n target/arm: Implement FCVTN, FCVTN2 (32- to 8-bit fp) for AdvSIMD\n target/arm: Implement FCVTN (16- to 8-bit fp) for SVE\n target/arm: Implement FCVTNB, FCVTNT for SVE\n target/arm: Implement FCVT (FP16 to FP8) for SME\n target/arm: Implement FCVT, FCVTN (FP32 to FP8) for SME\n target/arm: Enable FEAT_FP8 for -cpu max\n\n include/fpu/softfloat.h | 22 +-\n target/arm/cpregs.h | 5 +\n target/arm/cpu-features.h | 60 +++\n target/arm/cpu.h | 52 +--\n target/arm/helper-fp8.h | 14 +\n target/arm/internals.h | 13 +-\n target/arm/tcg/helper-a64-defs.h | 11 +\n target/arm/tcg/helper-fp8-defs.h | 25 ++\n target/arm/tcg/helper-sme-defs.h | 2 +-\n target/arm/tcg/helper-sve-defs.h | 14 +\n target/arm/tcg/translate-a64.h | 1 +\n target/arm/tcg/translate.h | 2 +\n target/arm/tcg/vec_internal.h | 19 +\n target/arm/vector-type.h | 44 ++\n fpu/softfloat.c | 73 ++-\n target/arm/helper.c | 43 +-\n target/arm/machine.c | 20 +\n target/arm/tcg/cpu64.c | 12 +\n target/arm/tcg/fp8_helper.c | 742 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n target/arm/tcg/hflags.c | 41 ++\n target/arm/tcg/sme_helper.c | 8 +-\n target/arm/tcg/sve_helper.c | 8 +\n target/arm/tcg/translate-a64.c | 94 ++++\n target/arm/tcg/translate-sme.c | 85 +++-\n target/arm/tcg/translate-sve.c | 43 ++\n target/arm/tcg/vec_helper64.c | 51 +++\n docs/system/arm/emulation.rst | 3 +\n target/arm/cpu-sysregs.h.inc | 2 +\n target/arm/tcg/a64.decode | 17 +\n target/arm/tcg/meson.build | 1 +\n target/arm/tcg/sme.decode | 28 +-\n target/arm/tcg/sve.decode | 18 +\n 32 files changed, 1495 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 target/arm/helper-fp8.h\n create mode 100644 target/arm/tcg/helper-fp8-defs.h\n create mode 100644 target/arm/vector-type.h\n create mode 100644 target/arm/tcg/fp8_helper.c" }