qemu/target/lm32
Richard Henderson 8b86d6d258 tcg: Hoist max_insns computation to tb_gen_code
In order to handle TB's that translate to too much code, we
need to place the control of the length of the translation
in the hands of the code gen master loop.

Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
2019-04-24 13:04:33 -07:00
..
Makefile.objs
README
TODO
cpu-qom.h
cpu.c target: Simplify how the TARGET_cpu_list() print 2019-04-18 22:18:59 +02:00
cpu.h qom/cpu: Simplify how CPUClass:cpu_dump_state() prints 2019-04-18 22:18:59 +02:00
gdbstub.c
helper.c accel/tcg: add size paremeter in tlb_fill() 2018-01-25 16:02:24 +01:00
helper.h
lm32-semi.c
machine.c
op_helper.c lm32: take BQL before writing IP/IM register 2018-05-21 13:37:12 +02:00
translate.c tcg: Hoist max_insns computation to tb_gen_code 2019-04-24 13:04:33 -07:00

README

LatticeMico32 target
--------------------

General
-------
All opcodes including the JUART CSRs are supported.


JTAG UART
---------
JTAG UART is routed to a serial console device. For the current boards it
is the second one. Ie to enable it in the qemu virtual console window use
the following command line parameters:
  -serial vc -serial vc
This will make serial0 (the lm32_uart) and serial1 (the JTAG UART)
available as virtual consoles.


Semihosting
-----------
Semihosting on this target is supported. Some system calls like read, write
and exit are executed on the host if semihosting is enabled. See
target/lm32-semi.c for all supported system calls. Emulation aware programs
can use this mechanism to shut down the virtual machine and print to the
host console. See the tcg tests for an example.


Special instructions
--------------------
The translation recognizes one special instruction to halt the cpu:
  and r0, r0, r0
On real hardware this instruction is a nop. It is not used by GCC and
should (hopefully) not be used within hand-crafted assembly.
Insert this instruction in your idle loop to reduce the cpu load on the
host.


Ignoring the MSB of the address bus
-----------------------------------
Some SoC ignores the MSB on the address bus. Thus creating a shadow memory
area. As a general rule, 0x00000000-0x7fffffff is cached, whereas
0x80000000-0xffffffff is not cached and used to access IO devices. This
behaviour can be enabled with:
  cpu_lm32_set_phys_msb_ignore(env, 1);