User’s Manual

 

 

 

IBM PowerPC 750GX and 750GL RISC Microprocessor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bits

Field Name

 

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Branch history table enable

 

 

0

BHT disabled. The 750GX uses static branch prediction as defined by the

 

 

 

PowerPC User Instruction Set Architecture (UISA) for those branch instructions

 

 

 

the BHT would have otherwise used to predict (that is, those that use the CR as

29

BHT

 

the only mechanism to determine direction). For more information on static

 

 

 

branch prediction, see “Conditional Branch Control,” in Chapter 4 of the Pow-

 

 

 

erPC Microprocessor Family: The Programming Environments Manual.

 

 

1

Allows the use of the 512-entry branch history table (BHT).

 

 

The BHT is disabled at power-on reset. All entries are set to weakly, not-taken.

 

 

 

30

Reserved

Reserved.

 

 

 

 

 

No-op the data-cache touch instructions.

31

NOOPTI

0

The Data Cache Block Touch (dcbt) and Data Cache Block Touch for Store

 

(dcbtst) instructions are enabled.

 

 

 

 

 

1

The dcbt and dcbtst instructions are no-oped globally.

 

 

 

 

 

1.For additional information, see Section 11.9, Checkstops, on page 361.

2.For additional information about power-saving modes, see Table 10-2, HID0 Power Saving Mode Bit Settings, on page 337.

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