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Now that PCjs supports specific steppings, set the reset revision number accordingly

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Jeff Parsons 2015-10-30 08:29:08 -07:00
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### Instructions
Here's more information on the opcodes (IBTS and XBTS) that were removed from the B1 stepping.
Here's more information on the 80386 opcodes (IBTS and XBTS) that were removed from the 80386, as of the B1 stepping.
[IBTS (0x0F 0xA7)](http://asm.inightmare.org/opcodelst/index.php?op=IBTS)
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Clocks: XBTS
80386: 6/13
FYI, PCjs now has limited support for the XBTS (0x0F 0xA6) and IBTS (0x0F 0xA7) instructions in any 80386 machine
configuration file that contains a CPU *stepping* attribute of "A0" through "B0".
By limited, I mean that:
1. The Debugger component can disassemble them
2. The X86CPU component can emulate them (but only for bit indexes 0-31)
I'm content with limited emulation, because it seems unlikely there is much (if any) real-world software that actually
used those short-lived instructions except as a way of discriminating between 80386 steppings. I also couldn't find any
decent specs for exactly how these instructions operated, so the emulation will have to stay limited.
The 0xA6 and 0xA7 opcodes were briefly reused on early 80486 CPUs for the byte and word forms, respectively, of CMPXCHG,
but then those CMPXCHG instructions were moved to opcodes 0xB0 and 0xB1 on later 80486 CPUs.
NOTE: The "PC Magazine Programmer's Technical Reference" claims that CMPXCHG used 0x0F opcodes 0xA6 and 0xA7 only on the
80486 B0 stepping, and that they were moved to 0x0F opcodes 0xB0 and 0xB1 on the "B1" stepping. However, I can't find
any independent confirmation of that.
Most other sources suggest that CMPXCHG used the old XBTS/IBTS opcodes only on 80486 "A" steppings, not any "B" steppings.
The PC Magazine author may have simply confused the 0xB0 and 0xB1 opcodes with the B0 and B1 steppings.
*[@jeffpar](http://twitter.com/jeffpar)*
*February 23, 2015*
*(Updated March 9, 2015 with information from "Advanced 80386 Programming Techniques")*