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diff --git a/target-mips/TODO b/target-mips/TODO index 2d207cf90..6d842e014 100644 --- a/target-mips/TODO +++ b/target-mips/TODO @@ -3,7 +3,32 @@ Unsolved issues/bugs in the mips/mipsel backend General ------- -- [ls][dw][lr] report broken (aligned) BadVAddr +- Unimplemented ASEs: + - MIPS16 + - MDMX + - SmartMIPS + - DSP r1 + - DSP r2 +- 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. MIPS64 ------ @@ -22,3 +47,9 @@ MALTA system emulation - We fake firmware support instead of doing the real thing - Real firmware falls over when trying to init RAM, presumably due to lacking system controller emulation. + +mipssim system emulation +------------------------ +- The mipsnet.c has a glitch: Booting from NFS root works up until + starting /sbin/init, then it Linux hangs with "NFS server not + responding". |