Re: [Qemu-devel] Switch to OpenBIOS for Sparc32/64?

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Blue Swirl wrote:

> I included other fixes currently needed for correct operation (clock 
> year fix, FPU fix by Joerg Platte, MMU no-fault fix).

Note: the FPU "fix" should be revisited because it is really not 
optimal. Here are some ideas to implement it better:

1) Include the bit 'psref' in the static translation state (in 
tb->flags). Then psref can be tested at translation time and there is no 
run time cost. This approach is used on the x86 target. The downside is 
that two TBs may be generated for a given block of code depending on the 
psref value. Ideally if no FPU operations are used in the TB, psref 
should be ignored (not done yet on x86).

2) Keep psref dynamic, but test it only once per TB using FPU 
operations. In case of exception, rebuilt the CPU state as with MMU 
exceptions so that save_state() is not needed.

I tend to prefer the solution (1).

Fabrice.