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++ trunk/HISTORY (local) $Id: HISTORY,v 1.1256 2006/06/23 20:43:44 debug Exp $ 20060219 Various minor updates. Removing the old MIPS16 skeleton code, because it will need to be rewritten for dyntrans anyway. 20060220-22 Removing the non-working dyntrans backend support. Continuing on the 64-bit dyntrans virtual memory generalization. 20060223 More work on the 64-bit vm generalization. 20060225 Beginning on MIPS dyntrans load/store instructions. Minor PPC updates (64-bit load/store, etc). Fixes for the variable-instruction-length framework, some minor AVR updates (a simple Hello World program works!). Beginning on a skeleton for automatically generating documen- tation (for devices etc.). 20060226 PPC updates (adding some more 64-bit instructions, etc). AVR updates (more instructions). FINALLY found and fixed the zs bug, making NetBSD/macppc accept the serial console. 20060301 Adding more AVR instructions. 20060304 Continuing on AVR-related stuff. Beginning on a framework for cycle-accurate device emulation. Adding an experimental "PAL TV" device (just a dummy so far). 20060305 Adding more AVR instructions. Adding a dummy epcom serial controller (for TS7200 emulation). 20060310 Removing the emul() command from configuration files, so only net() and machine() are supported. Minor progress on the MIPS dyntrans rewrite. 20060311 Continuing on the MIPS dyntrans rewrite (adding more instructions, etc). 20060315 Adding more instructions (sllv, srav, srlv, bgtz[l], blez[l], beql, bnel, slti[u], various loads and stores). 20060316 Removing the ALWAYS_SIGNEXTEND_32 option, since it was rarely used. Adding more MIPS dyntrans instructions, and fixing bugs. 20060318 Implementing fast loads/stores for MIPS dyntrans (big/little endian, 32-bit and 64-bit modes). 20060320 Making MIPS dyntrans the default configure option; use "--enable-oldmips" to use the old bintrans system. Adding MIPS dyntrans dmult[u]; minor updates. 20060322 Continuing... adding some more instructions. Adding a simple skeleton for demangling C++ "_ZN" symbols. 20060323 Moving src/debugger.c into a new directory (src/debugger/). 20060324 Fixing the hack used to load PPC ELFs (useful for relocated Linux/ppc kernels), and adding a dummy G3 machine mode. 20060325-26 Beginning to experiment with GDB remote serial protocol connections; adding a -G command line option for selecting which TCP port to listen to. 20060330 Beginning a major cleanup to replace things like "0x%016llx" with more correct "0x%016"PRIx64, etc. Continuing on the GDB remote serial protocol support. 20060331 More cleanup, and some minor GDB remote progress. 20060402 Adding a hack to the configure script, to allow compilation on systems that lack PRIx64 etc. 20060406 Removing the temporary FreeBSD/arm hack in dev_ns16550.c and replacing it with a better fix from Olivier Houchard. 20060407 A remote debugger (gdb or ddd) can now start and stop the emulator using the GDB remote serial protocol, and registers and memory can be read. MIPS only for now. 20060408 More GDB progress: single-stepping also works, and also adding support for ARM, PowerPC, and Alpha targets. Continuing on the delay-slot-across-page-boundary issue. 20060412 Minor update: beginning to add support for the SPARC target to the remote GDB functionality. 20060414 Various MIPS updates: adding more instructions for dyntrans (eret, add), and making some exceptions work. Fixing a bug in dmult[u]. Implementing the first SPARC instructions (sethi, or). 20060415 Adding "magic trap" instructions so that PROM calls can be software emulated in MIPS dyntrans. Adding more MIPS dyntrans instructions (ddiv, dadd) and fixing another bug in dmult. 20060416 More MIPS dyntrans progress: adding [d]addi, movn, movz, dsllv, rfi, an ugly hack for supporting R2000/R3000 style faked caches, preliminary interrupt support, and various other updates and bugfixes. 20060417 Adding more SPARC instructions (add, sub, sll[x], sra[x], srl[x]), and useful SPARC header definitions. Adding the first (trivial) x86/AMD64 dyntrans instructions (nop, cli/sti, stc/clc, std/cld, simple mov, inc ax). Various other x86 updates related to variable instruction length stuff. Adding unaligned loads/stores to the MIPS dyntrans mode (but still using the pre-dyntrans (slow) imlementation). 20060419 Fixing a MIPS dyntrans exception-in-delay-slot bug. Removing the old "show opcode statistics" functionality, since it wasn't really useful and isn't implemented for dyntrans. Single-stepping (or running with instruction trace) now looks ok with dyntrans with delay-slot architectures. 20060420 Minor hacks (removing the -B command line option when compiled for non-bintrans, and some other very minor updates). Adding (slow) MIPS dyntrans load-linked/store-conditional. 20060422 Applying fixes for bugs discovered by Nils Weller's nwcc (static DEC memmap => now per machine, and adding an extern keyword in cpu_arm_instr.c). Finally found one of the MIPS dyntrans bugs that I've been looking for (copy/paste spelling error BIG vs LITTLE endian in cpu_mips_instr_loadstore.c for 16-bit fast stores). FINALLY found the major MIPS dyntrans bug: slti vs sltiu signed/unsigned code in cpu_mips_instr.c. :-) Adding more MIPS dyntrans instructions (lwc1, swc1, bgezal[l], ctc1, tlt[u], tge[u], tne, beginning on rdhwr). NetBSD/hpcmips can now reach userland when using dyntrans :-) Adding some more x86 dyntrans instructions. Finally removed the old Alpha-specific virtual memory code, and replaced it with the generic 64-bit version. Beginning to add disassembly support for SPECIAL3 MIPS opcodes. 20060423 Continuing on the delay-slot-across-page-boundary issue; adding an end_of_page2 ic slot (like I had planned before, but had removed for some reason). Adding a quick-and-dirty fallback to legacy coprocessor 1 code (i.e. skipping dyntrans implementation for now). NetBSD/hpcmips and NetBSD/pmax (when running on an emulated R4400) can now be installed and run. :-) (Many bugs left to fix, though.) Adding more MIPS dyntrans instructions: madd[u], msub[u]. Cleaning up the SPECIAL2 vs R5900/TX79/C790 "MMI" opcode maps somewhat (disassembly and dyntrans instruction decoding). 20060424 Adding an isa_revision field to mips_cpu_types.h, and making sure that SPECIAL3 opcodes cause Reserved Instruction exceptions on MIPS32/64 revisions lower than 2. Adding the SPARC 'ba', 'call', 'jmpl/retl', 'and', and 'xor' instructions. 20060425 Removing the -m command line option ("run at most x instructions") and -T ("single_step_on_bad_addr"), because they never worked correctly with dyntrans anyway. Freshening up the man page. 20060428 Adding more MIPS dyntrans instructions: bltzal[l], idle. Enabling MIPS dyntrans compare interrupts. 20060429 FINALLY found the weird dyntrans bug, causing NetBSD etc. to behave strangely: some floating point code (conditional coprocessor branches) could not be reused from the old non-dyntrans code. The "quick-and-dirty fallback" only appeared to work. Fixing by implementing bc1* for MIPS dyntrans. More MIPS instructions: [d]sub, sdc1, ldc1, dmtc1, dmfc1, cfc0. Freshening up MIPS floating point disassembly appearance. 20060430 Continuing on C790/R5900/TX79 disassembly; implementing 128-bit "por" and "pextlw". 20060504 Disabling -u (userland emulation) unless compiled as unstable development version. Beginning on freshening up the testmachine include files, to make it easier to reuse those files (placing them in src/include/testmachine/), and beginning on a set of "demos" or "tutorials" for the testmachine functionality. Minor updates to the MIPS GDB remote protocol stub. Refreshing doc/experiments.html and gdb_remote.html. Enabling Alpha emulation in the stable release configuration, even though no guest OSes for Alpha can run yet. 20060505 Adding a generic 'settings' object, which will contain references to settable variables (which will later be possible to access using the debugger). 20060506 Updating dev_disk and corresponding demo/documentation (and switching from SCSI to IDE disk types, so it actually works with current test machines :-). 20060510 Adding a -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE hack for 64-bit Linux hosts, so that fseeko() doesn't give a warning. Updating the section about how dyntrans works (the "runnable IR") in doc/intro.html. Instruction updates (some x64=1 checks, some more R5900 dyntrans stuff: better mul/mult separation from MIPS32/64, adding ei and di). Updating MIPS cpuregs.h to a newer one (from NetBSD). Adding more MIPS dyntrans instructions: deret, ehb. 20060514 Adding disassembly and beginning implementation of SPARC wr and wrpr instructions. 20060515 Adding a SUN SPARC machine mode, with dummy SS20 and Ultra1 machines. Adding the 32-bit "rd psr" instruction. 20060517 Disassembly support for the general SPARC rd instruction. Partial implementation of the cmp (subcc) instruction. Some other minor updates (making sure that R5900 processors start up with the EIE bit enabled, otherwise Linux/playstation2 receives no interrupts). 20060519 Minor MIPS updates/cleanups. 20060521 Moving the MeshCube machine into evbmips; this seems to work reasonably well with a snapshot of a NetBSD MeshCube kernel. Cleanup/fix of MIPS config0 register initialization. 20060529 Minor MIPS fixes, including a sign-extension fix to the unaligned load/store code, which makes NetBSD/pmax on R3000 work better with dyntrans. (Ultrix and Linux/DECstation still don't work, though.) 20060530 Minor updates to the Alpha machine mode: adding an AlphaBook mode, an LCA bus (forwarding accesses to an ISA bus), etc. 20060531 Applying a bugfix for the MIPS dyntrans sc[d] instruction from Ondrej Palkovsky. (Many thanks.) 20060601 Minifix to allow ARM immediate msr instruction to not give an error for some valid values. More Alpha updates. 20060602 Some minor Alpha updates. 20060603 Adding the Alpha cmpbge instruction. NetBSD/alpha prints its first boot messages :-) on an emulated Alphabook 1. 20060612 Minor updates; adding a dev_ether.h include file for the testmachine ether device. Continuing the hunt for the dyntrans bug which makes Linux and Ultrix on DECstation behave strangely... FINALLY found it! It seems to be related to invalidation of the translation cache, on tlbw{r,i}. There also seems to be some remaining interrupt-related problems. 20060614 Correcting the implementation of ldc1/sdc1 for MIPS dyntrans (so that it uses 16 32-bit registers if the FR bit in the status register is not set). 20060616 REMOVING BINTRANS COMPLETELY! Removing the old MIPS interpretation mode. Removing the MFHILO_DELAY and instruction delay stuff, because they wouldn't work with dyntrans anyway. 20060617 Some documentation updates (adding "NetBSD-archive" to some URLs, and new Debian/DECstation installation screenshots). Removing the "tracenull" and "enable-caches" configure options. Improving MIPS dyntrans performance somewhat (only invalidate translations if necessary, on writes to the entryhi register, instead of doing it for all cop0 writes). 20060618 More cleanup after the removal of the old MIPS emulation. Trying to fix the MIPS dyntrans performance bugs/bottlenecks; only semi-successful so far (for R3000). 20060620 Minor update to allow clean compilation again on Tru64/Alpha. 20060622 MIPS cleanup and fixes (removing the pc_last stuff, which doesn't make sense with dyntrans anyway, and fixing a cross- page-delay-slot-with-exception case in end_of_page). Removing the old max_random_cycles_per_chunk stuff, and the concept of cycles vs instructions for MIPS emulation. FINALLY found and fixed the bug which caused NetBSD/pmax clocks to behave strangely (it was a load to the zero register, which was treated as a NOP; now it is treated as a load to a dummy scratch register). 20060623 Increasing the dyntrans chunk size back to N_SAFE_DYNTRANS_LIMIT, instead of N_SAFE_DYNTRANS_LIMIT/2. Preparing for a quick release, even though there are known bugs, and performance for non-R3000 MIPS emulation is very poor. :-/ Reverting to half the dyntrans chunk size again, because NetBSD/cats seemed less stable with full size chunks. :( NetBSD/sgimips 3.0 can now run :-) (With release 0.3.8, only NetBSD/sgimips 2.1 worked, not 3.0.) ============== RELEASE 0.4.0 ==============
++ trunk/HISTORY (local) $Id: HISTORY,v 1.905 2005/08/16 09:16:24 debug Exp $ 20050628 Continuing the work on the ARM translation engine. end_of_page works. Experimenting with load/store translation caches (virtual -> physical -> host). 20050629 More ARM stuff (memory access translation cache, mostly). This might break a lot of stuff elsewhere, probably some MIPS- related translation things. 20050630 Many load/stores are now automatically generated and included into cpu_arm_instr.c; 1024 functions in total (!). Fixes based on feedback from Alec Voropay: only print 8 hex digits instead of 16 in some cases when emulating 32-bit machines; similar 8 vs 16 digit fix for breakpoint addresses; 4Kc has 16 TLB entries, not 48; the MIPS config select1 register is now printed with "reg ,0". Also changing many other occurances of 16 vs 8 digit output. Adding cache associativity fields to mips_cpu_types.h; updating some other cache fields; making the output of mips_cpu_dumpinfo() look nicer. Generalizing the bintrans stuff for device accesses to also work with the new translation system. (This might also break some MIPS things.) Adding multi-load/store instructions to the ARM disassembler and the translator, and some optimizations of various kinds. 20050701 Adding a simple dev_disk (it can read/write sectors from disk images). 20050712 Adding dev_ether (a simple ethernet send/receive device). Debugger command "ninstrs" for toggling show_nr_of_instructions during runtime. Removing the framebuffer logo. 20050713 Continuing on dev_ether. Adding a dummy cpu_alpha (again). 20050714 More work on cpu_alpha. 20050715 More work on cpu_alpha. Many instructions work, enough to run a simple framebuffer fill test (similar to the ARM test). 20050716 More Alpha stuff. 20050717 Minor updates (Alpha stuff). 20050718 Minor updates (Alpha stuff). 20050719 Generalizing some Alpha instructions. 20050720 More Alpha-related updates. 20050721 Continuing on cpu_alpha. Importing rpb.h from NetBSD/alpha. 20050722 Alpha-related updates: userland stuff (Hello World using write() compiled statically for FreeBSD/Alpha runs fine), and more instructions are now implemented. 20050723 Fixing ldq_u and stq_u. Adding more instructions (conditional moves, masks, extracts, shifts). 20050724 More FreeBSD/Alpha userland stuff, and adding some more instructions (inserts). 20050725 Continuing on the Alpha stuff. (Adding dummy ldt/stt.) Adding a -A command line option to turn off alignment checks in some cases (for translated code). Trying to remove the old bintrans code which updated the pc and nr_of_executed_instructions for every instruction. 20050726 Making another attempt att removing the pc/nr of instructions code. This time it worked, huge performance increase for artificial test code, but performance loss for real-world code :-( so I'm scrapping that code for now. Tiny performance increase on Alpha (by using ret instead of jmp, to play nice with the Alpha's branch prediction) for the old MIPS bintrans backend. 20050727 Various minor fixes and cleanups. 20050728 Switching from a 2-level virtual to host/physical translation system for ARM emulation, to a 1-level translation. Trying to switch from 2-level to 1-level for the MIPS bintrans system as well (Alpha only, so far), but there is at least one problem: caches and/or how they work with device mappings. 20050730 Doing the 2-level to 1-level conversion for the i386 backend. The cache/device bug is still there for R2K/3K :( Various other minor updates (Malta etc). The mc146818 clock now updates the UIP bit in a way which works better with Linux for at least sgimips and Malta emulation. Beginning the work on refactoring the dyntrans system. 20050731 Continuing the dyntrans refactoring. Fixing a small but serious host alignment bug in memory_rw. Adding support for big-endian load/stores to the i386 bintrans backend. Another minor i386 bintrans backend update: stores from the zero register are now one (or two) loads shorter. The slt and sltu instructions were incorrectly implemented for the i386 backend; only using them for 32-bit mode for now. 20050801 Continuing the dyntrans refactoring. Cleanup of the ns16550 serial controller (removing unnecessary code). Bugfix (memory corruption bug) in dev_gt, and a patch/hack from Alec Voropay for Linux/Malta. 20050802 More cleanup/refactoring of the dyntrans subsystem: adding phys_page pointers to the lookup tables, for quick jumps between translated pages. Better fix for the ns16550 device (but still no real FIFO functionality). Converting cpu_ppc to the new dyntrans system. This means that I will have to start from scratch with implementing each instruction, and figure out how to implement dual 64/32-bit modes etc. Removing the URISC CPU family, because it was useless. 20050803 When selecting a machine type, the main type can now be omitted if the subtype name is unique. (I.e. -E can be omitted.) Fixing a dyntrans/device update bug. (Writes to offset 0 of a device could sometimes go unnoticed.) Adding an experimental "instruction combination" hack for ARM for memset-like byte fill loops. 20050804 Minor progress on cpu_alpha and related things. Finally fixing the MIPS dmult/dmultu bugs. Fixing some minor TODOs. 20050805 Generalizing the 8259 PIC. It now also works with Cobalt and evbmips emulation, in addition to the x86 hack. Finally converting the ns16550 device to use devinit. Continuing the work on the dyntrans system. Thinking about how to add breakpoints. 20050806 More dyntrans updates. Breakpoints seem to work now. 20050807 Minor updates: cpu_alpha and related things; removing dev_malta (as it isn't used any more). Dyntrans: working on general "show trace tree" support. The trace tree stuff now works with both the old MIPS code and with newer dyntrans modes. :) Continuing on Alpha-related stuff (trying to get *BSD to boot a bit further, adding more instructions, etc). 20050808 Adding a dummy IA64 cpu family, and continuing the refactoring of the dyntrans system. Removing the regression test stuff, because it was more or less useless. Adding loadlinked/storeconditional type instructions to the Alpha emulation. (Needed for Linux/alpha. Not very well tested yet.) 20050809 The function call trace tree now prints a per-function nr of arguments. (Semi-meaningless, since that data isn't read yet from the ELFs; some hardcoded symbols such as memcpy() and strlen() work fine, though.) More dyntrans refactoring; taking out more of the things that are common to all cpu families. 20050810 Working on adding support for "dual mode" for PPC dyntrans (i.e. both 64-bit and 32-bit modes). (Re)adding some simple PPC instructions. 20050811 Adding a dummy M68K cpu family. The dyntrans system isn't ready for variable-length ISAs yet, so it's completely bogus so far. Re-adding more PPC instructions. Adding a hack to src/file.c which allows OpenBSD/mac68k a.out kernels to be loaded. Beginning to add PPC loads/stores. So far they only work in 32-bit mode. 20050812 The configure file option "add_remote" now accepts symbolic host names, in addition to numeric IPv4 addresses. Re-adding more PPC instructions. 20050814 Continuing to port back more PPC instructions. Found and fixed the cache/device write-update bug for 32-bit MIPS bintrans. :-) Triggered a really weird and annoying bug in Compaq's C compiler; ccc sometimes outputs code which loads from an address _before_ checking whether the pointer was NULL or not. (I'm not sure how to handle this problem.) 20050815 Removing all of the old x86 instruction execution code; adding a new (dummy) dyntrans module for x86. Taking the first steps to extend the dyntrans system to support variable-length instructions. Slowly preparing for the next release. 20050816 Adding a dummy SPARC cpu module. Minor updates (documentation etc) for the release. ============== RELEASE 0.3.5 ==============
++ trunk/HISTORY (local) $Id: HISTORY,v 1.707 2005/04/27 16:37:33 debug Exp $ 20050408 Some minor updates to the wdc. Linux now doesn't complain anymore if a disk is non-present. 20050409 Various minor fixes (a bintrans bug, and some other things). The wdc seems to work with Playstation2 emulation, but there is a _long_ annoying delay when disks are detected. Fixing a really important bintrans bug (when devices and RAM are mixed within 4KB pages), which was triggered with NetBSD/playstation2 kernels. 20050410 Adding a dummy dev_ps2_ether (just so that NetBSD doesn't complain as much during bootup). Symbols starting with '$' are now ignored. Renaming dev_ps2_ohci.c to dev_ohci.c, etc. 20050411 Moving the bintrans-cache-isolation check from cpu_mips.c to cpu_mips_coproc.c. (I thought this would give a speedup, but it's not noticable.) Better playstation2 sbus interrupt code. Skip ahead many ticks if the count register is read manually. (This increases the speed of delay-loops that simply read the count register.) 20050412 Updates to the playstation2 timer/interrupt code. Some other minor updates. 20050413 NetBSD/cobalt runs from a disk image :-) including userland; updating the documentation on how to install NetBSD/cobalt using NetBSD/pmax (!). Some minor bintrans updates (no real speed improvement) and other minor updates (playstation2 now uses the -o options). 20050414 Adding a dummy x86 (and AMD64) mode. 20050415 Adding some (32-bit and 16-bit) x86 instructions. Adding some initial support for non-SCSI, non-IDE floppy images. (The x86 mode can boot from these, more or less.) Moving the devices/ and include/ directories to src/devices/ and src/include/, respectively. 20050416 Continuing on the x86 stuff. (Adding pc_bios.c and some simple support for software interrupts in 16-bit mode.) 20050417 Ripping out most of the x86 instruction decoding stuff, trying to rewrite it in a cleaner way. Disabling some of the least working CPU families in the configure script (sparc, x86, alpha, hppa), so that they are not enabled by default. 20050418 Trying to fix the bug which caused problems when turning on and off bintrans interactively, by flushing the bintrans cache whenever bintrans is manually (re)enabled. 20050419 Adding the 'lswi' ppc instruction. Minor updates to the x86 instruction decoding. 20050420 Renaming x86 register name indices from R_xx to X86_R_xx (this makes building on Tru64 nicer). 20050422 Adding a check for duplicate MIPS TLB entries on tlbwr/tlbwi. 20050427 Adding screenshots to guestoses.html. Some minor fixes and testing for the next release. ============== RELEASE 0.3.2 ==============
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