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0.3.5
1 $Id: TODO,v 1.166 2005/08/16 05:44:33 debug Exp $
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3 ===============================================================================
4
5 High priority stuff:
6
7
8 MIPS bintrans:
9 x) call/return address cache?
10
11 dyntrans:
12 x) memory write protection for ARM, but NOT for Alpha (because
13 it has the IMB instruction... hm)
14
15 x) call/return address cache
16
17 x) instr_call sequence analysis support? (Useful for
18 handtuning combinations.)
19
20 x) opcode statistics support?
21 TODO: is instr_call statistics enough?
22
23 x) support for archs that allow transparent unaligned load/stores
24
25 x) SMP: detect when an instruction such as ll/sc or cas is used,
26 and "synchronize" approximately the number of executed instructions
27 (or cycles) across all CPUs.
28
29 x) support for variable-length instructions (x86, m68k, ...)
30 Perhaps: don't increase the next_ic between every
31 instruction, but let each instruction's handler do
32 that for itself.
33 Problem: what about instructions crossing a (virtual)
34 page boundary? They cannot be translated once
35 and for all :( and must be interpreted slowly!
36
37 x) support for THUMB or MIPS16 (arm, mips)
38
39 x) support for Delay slots! (mips, sparc, hppa)
40
41 x) Alpha: hahaha, zapnot and inserts/extracts don't
42 compile into very nice code :-| fix this
43
44 x) 64-bit virtual memory translation tables (PPC, etc)
45
46 x) x86: convert to dyntrans. LOTS of stuff to consider.
47
48
49 ===============================================================================
50
51 Lower priority, but still important:
52
53 Redesign the entire "mainbus" concept:
54 o) Easily configurable interrupt routing in SMP systems.
55 o) Specific clock/bus speeds, cpu speeds etc.
56 o) Synchronization over network?
57
58 Caches / memory hierarchies: (this is mostly MIPS-specific)
59 o) MIPS coproc.c: bits in config registers should reflect
60 correct cache sizes for _all_ CPU types. (currently only
61 implemented for R4000, R1x000, and a few others)
62 o) src/memory*.c: Implement correct cache emulation for
63 all CPU types. (currently only R2000/R3000 is implemented)
64 (per CPU, multiple levels should be possible,
65 associativity etc!)
66 o) R2000/R3000 isn't _100%_ correct, just almost correct :)
67 o) Move the -S (fill mem with random) functionality into the
68 memory.c subsystem, not machine.c or wherever it is now
69 o) ECC stuff, simulation of memory errors? (Machine dependant)
70 o) More than 4GB of emulated RAM, when run on a 32-bit host?
71 (using manual swap-out of blocks to disk, ugly)
72 o) A global command line option should be used to turn
73 cache emulation on or off. When off, caches should be
74 faked like they are right now. When on, caches and
75 memory latencies should be emulated as correctly as
76 possible.
77
78 Network layer:
79 o) Multiple networks per emulation, and let different
80 NICs in machines connect to different networks.
81 o) many other issues: see src/net.c
82
83 MIPS CPU emulation:
84 o) i386 bintrans backend: movn etc, slt[u] for
85 64-bit mode, 64-bit shifts etc
86 o) Instructions:
87 o) All ISAs:
88 o) Floating point exception handling, and
89 add more instructions.
90 o) Finish the MIPS16 translator, and test it!
91 o) MIPS ISA I, II, III, IV
92 o) MIPS V (SIMD vector stuff?)
93 o) MDMX (MIPS Digital Media Extension)
94 o) MIPS 3D
95 o) MIPS MT (Multi-thread stuff) (What's this?)
96 o) Warn about mis-used bit fields (ie bits that
97 should be all zeroes, warn about if they are not)!
98 Both for coprocessor registers and for instruction
99 opcodes.
100 o) the special2 stuff is a mess right now
101 o) warn and/or cause exceptions for unimplemented
102 instructions (depending on CPU type)
103 o) R2000/R3000:
104 x) R3000 "tri-byte stores". (What's this?)
105 o) R4000 and others:
106 x) watchhi/watchlo exceptions, and other exception
107 handling details
108 o) R10000 and others: (R12000, R14000 ?)
109 x) memory space, exceptions, ...
110 x) use cop0 framemask for tlb lookups
111 (http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi/hdwr/bks/SGI_Developer/books/R10K_UM/sgi_html/t5.Ver.2.0.book_284.html)
112 o) Implement load delays? Warnings on interlocks.
113 o) Implement all coprocessor 0 bits / functions.
114 x) coproc 0 selectors! (R4000 ?)
115 o) R4300 (nintendo64, no mmu?), R5900 (playstation2, weird
116 TLB/cache? 128-bit GPRs, new instructions),
117 4K (note: NOT R4000), 5K (note: NOT R5000),
118 R6000 (ISA II), R8000
119 o) Multi-cpu stuff:
120 +) Interrupt routing (ie devices vs mainbus, or
121 connect each device to a fixed cpu)
122 +) SGI's NUMA architecture. Study
123 x) Linux sources
124 x) SGI's specs on NUMA address space
125 +) Ultrix? NetBSD doesn't do SMP on MIPS yet :-(
126 +) Own experiments with ycx2.
127
128 File/disk handling:
129 o) Better handling of tape files
130
131 Debugger:
132 o) Read function argument count and types from binaries? (ELF?)
133 o) Demangle C++ names.
134
135 Userland ABI emulation:
136 o) see src/useremul.c
137
138 Terminal based interactive debugger:
139 o) see src/debugger.c
140
141 Terminal/console stuff:
142 o) allow emulated serial ports to be connected to the outside
143 world in a more generic way, or even to other emulated
144 machines(!)
145
146 Regression tests. (Needs to be totally rewritten, the old framework
147 was removed because it was useless.)
148
149 Save state of the whole emulated machine, to be able to load it back
150 in later? (Memory, all device's states, all registers and
151 so on. Like taking a snapshot. (SimOS seems to do this,
152 according to its website.))
153
154 Better X-windows functionality:
155 o) CLEAN UP the ugly event code
156 o) Mouse clicks can be "missed" in the current system; this is
157 not good. They should be put on a stack of some kind.
158 o) More 2D and 3D framebuffer acceleration.
159 o) Non-resizable windows? Or choose scaledown depending
160 on size (and center the image, with a black border).
161 o) Different scaledown on different windows?
162 o) Switch scaledown during runtime? (Ala CTRL-ALT-plus/minus)
163 o) Keyboard and mouse events:
164 x) Do this for more machines than just DECstation
165 x) more X11 cursor keycodes
166 x) Keys like CTRL, ALT, SHIFT do not get through
167 by themselves (these are necessary for example
168 to change the font of an xterm in X in the
169 emulator)
170 o) Generalize the framebuffer stuff by moving _ALL_ X11
171 specific code to src/x11.c!
172
173 Statistics: (this could be interesting)
174 o) Save to file and show graphics. It should be possible to
175 run gxemul after a simulation to just show the graphics,
176 or convert to a .ppm or .tga or similar.
177 o) memory accesses (to measure cache efficiency and
178 page coloring efficiency)
179 o) nr of simultaneous ASIDs in use in the TLB, for MIPS
180 o) percentage of time spent in different "states", such as
181 running userland code, kernel code, or idling (for CPUs
182 that have such an instruction, or whenever the PC is
183 inside a specific idle-function (address range)).
184 Possible additional state (for example on R3000): caches
185 disabled.
186 o) position of read/write on (SCSI) disks
187

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