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------- Comment From bergner at us.ibm.com 2016-06-23 10:36 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #7)
> the POWER9 support was just updated for the trunk, however doesn't apply
> cleanly on the 2.26 branch.  Please update.

This is due to Alan's VLE cleanup patch here:

https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2016-06/msg00065.html

I was already planning on backporting the latest POWER9 changes to the
2.26 release branch today.  I'll let you know when it's ready.

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Title:
  Pull latest binutils POWER9 support commit that adds support for 3 new
  instructions

Status in binutils package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in binutils source package in Xenial:
  New

Bug description:
  Two new ISA 3.0 RFCs have been created that add 3 new instructions
  that will be present in POWER9.  Binutils support for these new
  instructions have been committed to the binutils trunk and 2.26
  release branches with the commits below.  We would like this change to
  be picked up for the next release/update.

  
  binutils trunk:

  commit 19dfcc89e8d94526f011242041b700ede8834996
  Author: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet.ibm.com>
  Date:   Thu May 26 19:06:51 2016 -0500

      Add support for new POWER ISA 3.0 instructions.
      
      opcodes/
      
          * ppc-opc.c (CY): New define.  Document it.
          (powerpc_opcodes) <addex[.], lwzmx, vmsumudm>: New mnemonics.
      
      gas/
          * testsuite/gas/ppc/altivec3.d <vmsumudm>: Add test.
          * testsuite/gas/ppc/altivec3.s: Likewise.
          * testsuite/gas/ppc/power9.d <addex[.], lwzmx, vmsumudm>: Add tests.
          * testsuite/gas/ppc/power9.s: Likewise.

  binutils 2.26:

  commit 8bfb4f2639cc2a4b5bc6862adbdd3e948e61ace2
  Author: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet.ibm.com>
  Date:   Wed Jun 1 09:48:03 2016 -0500

      Add support for new POWER ISA 3.0 instructions.
      
      opcodes/
      
          Backport from master
          2016-05-26  Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet.ibm.com>
      
          * ppc-opc.c (CY): New define.  Document it.
          (powerpc_opcodes) <addex[.], lwzmx, vmsumudm>: New mnemonics.
      
      gas/
          Backport from master
          2016-05-26  Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet.ibm.com>
      
          * testsuite/gas/ppc/altivec3.d <vmsumudm>: Add test.
          * testsuite/gas/ppc/altivec3.s: Likewise.
          * testsuite/gas/ppc/power9.d <addex[.], lwzmx, vmsumudm>: Add tests.
          * testsuite/gas/ppc/power9.s: Likewise.

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