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+We Have Atomic Operation Control (ATOMCTL) Register.
+This register determines the effect of using a S32C1I instruction
+with various combinations of:
+
+     1. With and without an Coherent Cache Controller which
+        can do Atomic Transactions to the memory internally.
+
+     2. With and without An Intelligent Memory Controller which
+        can do Atomic Transactions itself.
+
+The Core comes up with a default value of for the three types of cache ops:
+
+      0x28: (WB: Internal, WT: Internal, BY:Exception)
+
+On the FPGA Cards we typically simulate an Intelligent Memory controller
+which can implement  RCW transactions. For FPGA cards with an External
+Memory controller we let it to the atomic operations internally while
+doing a Cached (WB) transaction and use the Memory RCW for un-cached
+operations.
+
+For systems without an coherent cache controller, non-MX, we always
+use the memory controllers RCW, thought non-MX controlers likely
+support the Internal Operation.
+
+CUSTOMER-WARNING:
+   Virtually all customers buy their memory controllers from vendors that
+   don't support atomic RCW memory transactions and will likely want to
+   configure this register to not use RCW.
+
+Developers might find using RCW in Bypass mode convenient when testing
+with the cache being bypassed; for example studying cache alias problems.
+
+See Section 4.3.12.4 of ISA; Bits:
+
+                             WB     WT      BY
+                           5   4 | 3   2 | 1   0
+  2 Bit
+  Field
+  Values     WB - Write Back         WT - Write Thru         BY - Bypass
+---------    ---------------         -----------------     ----------------
+    0        Exception               Exception               Exception
+    1        RCW Transaction         RCW Transaction         RCW Transaction
+    2        Internal Operation      Exception               Reserved
+    3        Reserved                Reserved                Reserved