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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-02-05 17:27:27 +0000
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-02-08 14:50:48 +0000
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disas: Add subset of libvixl sources for A64 disassembler
Add the subset of the libvixl sources that are needed for the A64 disassembler support. These sources come from https://github.com/armvixl/vixl commit 578645f14e122d2b which is VIXL release 1.1. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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+The code in this directory is a subset of libvixl:
+ https://github.com/armvixl/vixl
+(specifically, it is the set of files needed for disassembly only,
+taken from libvixl 1.1).
+Bugfixes should preferably be sent upstream initially.
+
+The disassembler does not currently support the entire A64 instruction
+set. Notably:
+ * No Advanced SIMD support.
+ * Limited support for system instructions.
+ * A few miscellaneous integer and floating point instructions are missing.