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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Capstone for MIPS (was: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 09:18:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <444414ba-6ca8-c22f-601f-498f06c83d80@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43860dbe-5cf8-91ef-2bba-8da631154b3b@amsat.org>

On 09/05/2022 15.42, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 9/5/22 15:18, Thomas Huth wrote:
[...]
>> By the way, what about MIPS? Could MIPS be switched to Capstone, too, so 
>> that we could finally remove disas/mips.c ? (We're not using capstone 
>> there yet, and MIPS has so many flavours, big and little endian, 32- and 
>> 64-bit ... so that I'm unsure whether there was a reason for not using 
>> Capstone there, or whether it just hasn't been tried out yet?)
> 
> Last I remember is Richard saying "the capstone backend for mips is not
> in terribly good shape":
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/0c7827df-c9d4-8dad-a38c-4881ce7dd22b@linaro.org/ 

That was in 2017, in the Capstone 3.x days ... maybe the situation has 
improved nowadays?

  Thomas



  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-17  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-12 16:58 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers Thomas Huth
2022-04-12 16:58 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] disas: Remove old libopcode s390 disassembler Thomas Huth
2022-04-12 16:58 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] disas: Remove old libopcode arm disassembler Thomas Huth
2022-04-12 16:58 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] disas: Remove old libopcode i386 disassembler Thomas Huth
2022-04-21 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers Richard Henderson
2022-05-09 12:20 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via
2022-05-09 13:18   ` Thomas Huth
2022-05-09 13:42     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via
2022-05-17  7:18       ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2022-05-17 16:15         ` Capstone for MIPS (was: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers) Richard Henderson

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