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From: WANG Xuerui <i.qemu@xen0n.name>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
	"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/30] configure, meson.build: Mark support for 64-bit LoongArch hosts
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 15:24:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e26e4c3d-672c-d5cf-17a5-e92aacc09840@xen0n.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361ef78-1ac4-8d64-2897-3e3b5c7ef3bd@amsat.org>

Hi Philippe,

On 9/21/21 14:59, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 9/21/21 08:02, WANG Xuerui wrote:
>> On 9/21/21 01:23, Richard Henderson wrote:
>>> On 9/20/21 1:04 AM, WANG Xuerui wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
>>>> ---
>>>>   configure   | 4 +++-
>>>>   meson.build | 4 +++-
>>>>   2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>>> If there's no loongarch32, and never will be, then there's probably 
>>> no point in keeping the '64' suffix.
>>
>> The loongarch32 tuple will most certainly come into existence some 
>> time in the future, but probably bare-metal-only and without a Linux 
>> port AFAIK. That's a point the Loongson people and I didn't 
>> communicate well, apologizes for that. (While we're at it, the 
>> reserved "loongarchx32" which is x32/n32-like, most likely will never 
>> exist.)
>
> Are you trying to beat MIPS at their ABI complexity? /s

Hah, I'm not Loongson employee so maybe I'm not in the best position to 
answer this ;-)

But from an outsider's perspective, the Loongson people obviously 
reserved things upfront like a multi-millionaire, then suddenly realized 
they only have ~500 people on board, developers even less; so they did 
the Right Thing(TM), only later, to drop x32 altogether and focus their 
energy on bare-metal use cases for their 32-bit-only chips.

Plus, LoongArch is strictly little-endian, and only one baseline ISA 
revision is published so far, so IMO it can never beat MIPS in terms of 
combinatorial ABI possibilities. Maybe RISC-V have a chance? ;-)



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-21  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-20  8:04 [PATCH 00/30] 64-bit LoongArch port of QEMU TCG WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 01/30] elf: Add machine type value for LoongArch WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 02/30] MAINTAINERS: Add tcg/loongarch entry with myself as maintainer WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 14:50   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 03/30] tcg/loongarch: Add the tcg-target.h file WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 14:23   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20 16:20     ` WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 16:25       ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 04/30] tcg/loongarch: Add generated instruction opcodes and encoding helpers WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 15:55   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20 16:24     ` WANG Xuerui
2021-09-21  9:58   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-21 11:40     ` WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 05/30] tcg/loongarch: Add register names, allocation order and input/output sets WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 15:57   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20 16:27     ` WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 06/30] tcg/loongarch: Define the operand constraints WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 14:28   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 07/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement necessary relocation operations WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 14:36   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20 17:15     ` WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 08/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement the memory barrier op WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 09/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement tcg_out_mov and tcg_out_movi WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 14:47   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 10/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement goto_ptr WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 14:49   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 11/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement sign-/zero-extension ops WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 14:50   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 12/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement not/and/or/xor/nor/andc/orc ops WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 14:54   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 13/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement deposit/extract ops WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 14:55   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 14/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement bswap32_i32/bswap64_i64 WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 15:11   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20 18:20     ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-21  6:37     ` WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 15/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement clz/ctz ops WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 16:10   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 16/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement shl/shr/sar/rotl/rotr ops WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 16:13   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 17/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement neg/add/sub ops WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 16:16   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 18/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement mul/mulsh/muluh/div/divu/rem/remu ops WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 16:16   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 19/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement br/brcond ops WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 16:20   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 20/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement setcond ops WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 16:24   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 21/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement tcg_out_call WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 16:31   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20 16:35     ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-21  6:42       ` WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 22/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement simple load/store ops WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 16:35   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 23/30] tcg/loongarch: Add softmmu load/store helpers, implement qemu_ld/qemu_st ops WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 17:10   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 24/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement tcg_target_qemu_prologue WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 17:15   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 25/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement exit_tb/goto_tb WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 17:16   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 26/30] tcg/loongarch: Implement tcg_target_init WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 17:19   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 27/30] tcg/loongarch: Register the JIT WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 17:21   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 28/30] configure, meson.build: Mark support for 64-bit LoongArch hosts WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 17:23   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-21  6:02     ` WANG Xuerui
2021-09-21  6:59       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-21  7:24         ` WANG Xuerui [this message]
2021-09-21 13:30       ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-21 14:07         ` WANG Xuerui
2021-09-21 14:10           ` WANG Xuerui
2021-09-21 14:42     ` Peter Maydell
2021-09-21 15:59       ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-21 16:09       ` WANG Xuerui
2021-09-21 17:26         ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 29/30] linux-user: Add host dependency for 64-bit LoongArch WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 17:26   ` Richard Henderson
2021-09-20  8:04 ` [PATCH 30/30] accel/tcg/user-exec: Implement CPU-specific signal handler for LoongArch hosts WANG Xuerui
2021-09-20 17:31   ` Richard Henderson

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