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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
	"linux-mips@linux-mips.org" <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: R2300 (not the hay baler)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:32:04 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1311220016030.3267@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131121224301.GY10382@linux-mips.org>

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> >  Also I'm not sure what the core file format is for the FP context, it may 
> > be worth double-checking too.
> 
> Is there some test suite for that kind of stuff?

 GDB has some core file support coverage; I'm not sure if it's meticulous 
enough to catch such issues though, and also if it checks OS-produced 
cores or ones made with its own `generate-core-file' (aka `gcore') command 
only.  Besides if ptrace(2) and the core dumper are consistent with each 
other, then chances are that any bugs there cancel each other too.

> >  Please feel free to poke me directly if you have any further issues about 
> > MIPS I ISA compatibility.
> 
> Makes me wonder if there's a MIPS emulator that emulates a MIPS I system
> faithfully.

 The Algorithmics FPU emulator (the original version shipped with their 
SDE kit, not the kernel version we got contributed) could have been 
strapped for true MIPS I support I believe.  Also GNU sim might be able to 
emulate a whole MIPS I CPU, although I haven't checked.  Other than that I 
haven't seen any (QEMU does not).

  Maciej

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-22  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-19 11:07 R2300 (not the hay baler) Paul Burton
2013-11-19 11:21 ` Ralf Baechle
2013-11-19 11:31   ` Paul Burton
2013-11-19 12:27 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-11-19 12:59   ` Paul Burton
2013-11-21 19:52     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-11-21 22:43       ` Ralf Baechle
2013-11-22  0:32         ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2013-11-27 17:11       ` Paul Burton
2013-12-03 16:49         ` MASS MAILING: " Paul Burton
2013-11-19 13:09 ` Ralf Baechle

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