[U-Boot] [PATCHv2] fsl_ddr: Don't use full 64-bit divides on32-bit PowerPC

[York Sun]

Kyle,

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 14:04 -0500, Moffett, Kyle D wrote:
> On 64-bit this change is basically a no-op, because do_div() is implemented as a literal 64-bit divide operation and the instruction scheduling works out almost the same.
> 
> On 32-bit PowerPC a fully accurate 64/64 divide (__udivdi3 in libgcc) is 1.1kb of code and hundreds or thousands of dependent cycles to compute, all of which is linked in from libgcc.  Another 1.2kb of code comes in for __umoddi3.
> 
> The original reason I wrote this patch is that the native "libgcc" on my boards is hard-float and therefore generates warnings when linking to it from soft-float code.  The toolchain is the native Debian powerpc (or powerpcspe), and most other native PowerPC distributions are also hard-float-only.
> 
> When I combine this patch with the other patch I posted to create a minimal internal libgcc with a few 64-bit shift functions from the linux kernel, I can successfully build U-Boot on those native PowerPC systems.
> 

Points taken. Can you explain your algorithm? I see you want to do
clks/5^12/2^13, but I don't see when the clks is divided by 5^12. Did I
miss some lines?

York