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Unsolved issues/bugs in the mips/mipsel backend
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General
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- Unimplemented ASEs:
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  - MIPS16
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  - MDMX
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  - SmartMIPS
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  - DSP r1
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  - DSP r2
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- MT ASE only partially implemented and not functional
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- Shadow register support only partially implemented,
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  lacks set switching on interrupt/exception.
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- 34K ITC not implemented.
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- A general lack of documentation, especially for technical internals.
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  Existing documentation is x86-centric.
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- Reverse endianness bit not implemented
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- The TLB emulation is very inefficient:
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  Qemu's softmmu implements a x86-style MMU, with separate entries
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  for read/write/execute, a TLB index which is just a modulo of the
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  virtual address, and a set of TLBs for each user/kernel/supervisor
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  MMU mode.
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  MIPS has a single entry for read/write/execute and only one MMU mode.
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  But it is fully associative with randomized entry indices, and uses
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  up to 256 ASID tags as additional matching criterion (which roughly
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  equates to 256 MMU modes). It also has a global flag which causes
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  entries to match regardless of ASID.
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  To cope with these differences, Qemu currently flushes the TLB at
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  each ASID change. Using the MMU modes to implement ASIDs hinges on
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  implementing the global bit efficiently.
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- save/restore of the CPU state is not implemented (see machine.c).
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MIPS64
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- Userland emulation (both n32 and n64) not functional.
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"Generic" 4Kc system emulation
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- Doesn't correspond to any real hardware.
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PICA 61 system emulation
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- No framebuffer support yet.
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MALTA system emulation
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- We fake firmware support instead of doing the real thing
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- Real firmware falls over when trying to init RAM, presumably due
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  to lacking system controller emulation.
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- Bonito system controller not implemented
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- MSC1 system controller not implemented