--- trunk/TODO	2007/10/08 16:18:00	4
+++ trunk/TODO	2007/10/08 16:18:27	10
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-$Id: TODO,v 1.127 2005/04/15 21:39:54 debug Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.139 2005/06/23 06:55:43 debug Exp $
 
 Here's a short list of what I have left to do on GXemul. This file is a mess.
 Order is random. Don't trust it to be up-to-date.
 
-
 	Caches / memory hierarchies: (this is mostly MIPS-specific)
 		o)  MIPS coproc.c: bits in config registers should reflect
 		    correct cache sizes for _all_ CPU types. (currently only
@@ -27,21 +26,8 @@
 	Network layer:
 		o)  Multiple networks per emulation, and let different
 		    NICs in machines connect to different networks.
-		o)  Network across multiple hosts.
-		o)  Fixed MAC addresses for NICs, fixed IPv4 addresses if
-		    DHCP or RARP is used.
 		o)  many other issues: see src/net.c
 
-	Configure script:
-		o)  Only enable Alpha prefetch on pca56 etc, not on ev4, ev5.
-		o)  Use getopts?
-		o)  X11 libs and headers via command line option?
-		o)  Verify that the configure script, building and running
-		    the emulator works on some platforms:
-			+)  Irix, AIX, QNX
-			+)  MacOS X  (I've not tried this personally yet)
-			+)  Ultrix using gcc? (Inside the emulator)
-
 	CPU emulation:
 		o)  Binary translation:
 			+)  use an Intermediate Representation!
@@ -50,6 +36,7 @@
 			+)  on Alpha: don't assume pca56-like byte load/store?
 			+)  write backends for UltraSparc and MIPS
 			+)  see src/bintrans.c for more info
+		o)  Dynamic-but-not-binary translation?
 		o)  All the non-MIPS modes need a bit of work.
 
 	MIPS CPU emulation:
@@ -94,8 +81,6 @@
 			+)  Own experiments with ycx2.
 
 	Emulation of specific machines and devices:
-		o)  Clean up stuff to make it possible to emulate multiple
-		    (different) machines simultaneously.
 		o)  Use same clock for all emulations and machines.
 		o)  Clean up the device stuff (registering of devices etc)
 		o)  Various SCSI and IDE controllers
@@ -130,8 +115,6 @@
 			x)  SMP / NUMA?  (SGI and various ARC machines)
 		o)  Playstation 2:
 			Hardware:  OHCI usb controller, keyboard, ...
-		o)  Cobalt:  PCI and interrupt system, ethernet,
-			harddisk controller(s)
 		o)  Less interesting platforms:
 			o)  newsmips:
 				o)  NetBSD/newsmips, get it to detect a "real"
@@ -143,14 +126,9 @@
 				No FPU, but something as coproc 2.
 			o)  Nintendo 64, http://www.nintendo.com/systems/n64/n64_specs.jsp
 				(R4300, 4MB RAM, really weird memory map)
-		o)  non-MIPS
 
 	File/disk handling:
-		o)  More than one type of disk in a machine (say, IDE + FLOPPY,
-		    or SCSI + IDE); how to handle this nicely?
 		o)  Read function argument count and types from binaries? (ELF?)
-		o)  ELF: separate LE/BE (MIPS instruction format) from LSB/MSB
-			(ELF structure format)?
 		o)  Better handling of tape files
 
 	Userland ABI emulation:
@@ -159,25 +137,12 @@
 	Terminal based interactive debugger:
 		o)  see src/debugger.c
 
-	GDB interface? (Maybe not necessary; the built-in debugger feels
-	more useful.)
-
-	GUI, interactive debugger?  GTK+?  (The GUI _must be optional_!)
-		o)  Breakpoints (complex expressions? combinations of register
-			states, memory accesses and so on)
-		o)  Instruction trace
-		o)  Disassembly of RAM (_NOT_ the same as instruction trace)
-		o)  Function call trace
-		o)  Inspection of CPU registers/state, coprocessor
-			registers/state, any device registers/state/contents
-			o)  Framebuffers in windows / tabs.
-			o)  Contents of RAM
-		o)  "Start new emulation" should allow amount of
-			RAM and nr of cpus to easily be specified.
-			Multiple simultaneous machines should be possible.
-		o)  Disk images.
+	Terminal/console stuff:
+		o)  allow emulated serial ports to be connected to the outside
+		    world in a more generic way, or even to other emulated
+		    machines(!)
 
-	Regression tests:
+	Regression tests:  (Should be totally rewritten.)
 		o)  see tests/
 
 	Save state of the whole emulated machine, to be able to load it back