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authorThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>2016-10-11 08:56:52 +0200
committerThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>2016-12-20 21:52:12 +0100
commitfcf5ef2ab52c621a4617ebbef36bf43b4003f4c0 (patch)
tree2b450d96b01455df8ed908bf8f26ddc388a03380 /target/mips/TODO
parent82ecffa8c050bf5bbc13329e9b65eac1caa5b55c (diff)
Move target-* CPU file into a target/ folder
We've currently got 18 architectures in QEMU, and thus 18 target-xxx folders in the root folder of the QEMU source tree. More architectures (e.g. RISC-V, AVR) are likely to be included soon, too, so the main folder of the QEMU sources slowly gets quite overcrowded with the target-xxx folders. To disburden the main folder a little bit, let's move the target-xxx folders into a dedicated target/ folder, so that target-xxx/ simply becomes target/xxx/ instead. Acked-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> [m68k part] Acked-by: Bastian Koppelmann <kbastian@mail.uni-paderborn.de> [tricore part] Acked-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc> [lm32 part] Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> [s390x part] Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> [s390x part] Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> [i386 part] Acked-by: Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com> [sparc part] Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> [alpha part] Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> [xtensa part] Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> [ppc part] Acked-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com> [cris&microblaze part] Acked-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> [unicore32 part] Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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+Unsolved issues/bugs in the mips/mipsel backend
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+General
+-------
+- Unimplemented ASEs:
+ - MDMX
+ - SmartMIPS
+ - microMIPS DSP r1 & r2 encodings
+- MT ASE only partially implemented and not functional
+- Shadow register support only partially implemented,
+ lacks set switching on interrupt/exception.
+- 34K ITC not implemented.
+- A general lack of documentation, especially for technical internals.
+ Existing documentation is x86-centric.
+- Reverse endianness bit not implemented
+- The TLB emulation is very inefficient:
+ QEMU's softmmu implements a x86-style MMU, with separate entries
+ for read/write/execute, a TLB index which is just a modulo of the
+ virtual address, and a set of TLBs for each user/kernel/supervisor
+ MMU mode.
+ MIPS has a single entry for read/write/execute and only one MMU mode.
+ But it is fully associative with randomized entry indices, and uses
+ up to 256 ASID tags as additional matching criterion (which roughly
+ equates to 256 MMU modes). It also has a global flag which causes
+ entries to match regardless of ASID.
+ To cope with these differences, QEMU currently flushes the TLB at
+ each ASID change. Using the MMU modes to implement ASIDs hinges on
+ implementing the global bit efficiently.
+- save/restore of the CPU state is not implemented (see machine.c).
+
+MIPS64
+------
+- Userland emulation (both n32 and n64) not functional.
+
+"Generic" 4Kc system emulation
+------------------------------
+- Doesn't correspond to any real hardware. Should be removed some day,
+ U-Boot is the last remaining user.
+
+PICA 61 system emulation
+------------------------
+- No framebuffer support yet.
+
+MALTA system emulation
+----------------------
+- We fake firmware support instead of doing the real thing
+- Real firmware (YAMON) falls over when trying to init RAM, presumably
+ due to lacking system controller emulation.
+- Bonito system controller not implemented
+- MSC1 system controller not implemented