Reserved Instruction Opcodes; Table A-3. Preserved Opcodes; Table A-4. Reserved-Nop Opcodes - IBM PPC440X5 CPU Core User Manual

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Table A-3 lists the reserved opcodes designated by PowerPC Book-E. The decimal value of the secondary
opcode is shown in parentheses after the binary value.
As indicated in the table above, the only preserved opcode which is implemented within the PPC440x5 core
is the mftb instruction. See Preserved Instruction Class on page 55 for more information on PPC440x5
support for this instruction. All other preserved instructions are treated as reserved by PPC440x5 and will
cause Illegal Instruction exception type Program interrupts if their execution is attempted.
The preserved opcode for mftb is included in Table A-5 on page 559, along with all of the defined, allocated,
and reserved-nop class opcodes which are implemented within the PPC440x5 core.
A.5 Reserved Instruction Opcodes
This class of instructions consists of all instruction primary opcodes (and associated extended opcodes, if
applicable) which do not belong to either the defined, allocated, or preserved instruction classes.
Reserved instructions are available for future versions of PowerPC Book-E architecture. That is, future
versions of PowerPC Book-E may define any of these instructions to perform new functions or make them
available for implementation-dependent use as allocated instructions. There are two types of reserved
instructions: reserved-illegal and reserved-nop.
Table A-4 lists the reserved-nop opcodes designated by PowerPC Book-E. In the table, the character "u"
designates a secondary opcode bit which can be set to any value. All other reserved opcodes are in the
reserved-illegal class.
As shown in the table, there are a total of eight (8) secondary opcodes in the reserved-nop class. The
PPC440x5 implements all of the reserved-nop instruction opcodes as true no-ops. These opcodes are
included in Table A-5 on page 559, along with all of the defined, allocated, and preserved class opcodes
which are implemented within the PPC440x5 core.
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Table A-3. Preserved Opcodes

Primary Extended
Opcode Opcode
31 0b0011010010 (210)
31 0b0011110010 (242)
31 0b0101110010 (370)
31 0b0100110010 (306)
31 0b0101110011 (371)
31 0b1001010011 (595)
31 0b1010010011 (659)
31 0b0100110110 (310)
31 0b0110110110 (438)

Table A-4. Reserved-nop Opcodes

Primary
Opcode
31
Preserved PPC440x5
Mnemonic Usage
mtsr
mtsrin
tlbia
tlbie
mftb Yes
mfsr
mfsrin
eciwx
ecowx
Extended
Opcode
0b10uuu10010
Preliminary
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