1 Unsolved issues/bugs in the mips/mipsel backend
2 -----------------------------------------------
12 - MT ASE only partially implemented and not functional
13 - Shadow register support only partially implemented,
14 lacks set switching on interrupt/exception.
15 - 34K ITC not implemented.
16 - A general lack of documentation, especially for technical internals.
17 Existing documentation is x86-centric.
18 - Reverse endianness bit not implemented
19 - The TLB emulation is very inefficient:
20 Qemu's softmmu implements a x86-style MMU, with separate entries
21 for read/write/execute, a TLB index which is just a modulo of the
22 virtual address, and a set of TLBs for each user/kernel/supervisor
24 MIPS has a single entry for read/write/execute and only one MMU mode.
25 But it is fully associative with randomized entry indices, and uses
26 up to 256 ASID tags as additional matching criterion (which roughly
27 equates to 256 MMU modes). It also has a global flag which causes
28 entries to match regardless of ASID.
29 To cope with these differences, Qemu currently flushes the TLB at
30 each ASID change. Using the MMU modes to implement ASIDs hinges on
31 implementing the global bit efficiently.
32 - save/restore of the CPU state is not implemented (see machine.c).
33 - Improve cpu state handling:
34 Step 1) Collect all the TC state in a single struct, so we need only
35 a single global pointer for the active TC.
36 Step 2) Use only a single TC context as working context, and copy the
37 contexts on TC switch. Likewise for FPU contexts.
41 - Userland emulation (both n32 and n64) not functional.
43 "Generic" 4Kc system emulation
44 ------------------------------
45 - Doesn't correspond to any real hardware. Should be removed some day,
46 U-Boot is the last remaining user.
48 PICA 61 system emulation
49 ------------------------
50 - No framebuffer support yet.
52 MALTA system emulation
53 ----------------------
54 - We fake firmware support instead of doing the real thing
55 - Real firmware (YAMON) falls over when trying to init RAM, presumably
56 due to lacking system controller emulation.
57 - Bonito system controller not implemented
58 - MSC1 system controller not implemented