diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'target-mips/TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | target-mips/TODO | 51 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 51 deletions
diff --git a/target-mips/TODO b/target-mips/TODO deleted file mode 100644 index 1d782d8027..0000000000 --- a/target-mips/TODO +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -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 |