From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35199 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OKZB2-0007rR-FK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:51:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OKZAx-00045w-0f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:51:19 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([38.113.113.100]:58026) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OKZAw-00045W-PE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:51:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 08:51:12 -0700 From: Nathan Froyd Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] target-mips: add microMIPS ASE support, v2 Message-ID: <20100604155111.GD19235@codesourcery.com> References: <1274717984-25887-1-git-send-email-froydnj@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1274717984-25887-1-git-send-email-froydnj@codesourcery.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: aurelien@aurel32.net On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 09:19:34AM -0700, Nathan Froyd wrote: > This patch series adds support for the microMIPS ASE. microMIPS is a > new ASE similar to MIPS16, but re-encodes the entire instruction set > into 16-bit and 32-bit instructions--in contrast to MIPS16, which > re-encodes only integer instructions. The mechanisms for going in and > out of microMIPS mode are identical to those for MIPS16; a given chip > cannot support both ASEs simultaneously. Ping. -Nathan