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1  $Id: TODO,v 1.125 2005/03/06 08:21:10 debug Exp $  $Id: TODO,v 1.489 2007/05/01 04:05:06 debug Exp $
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3  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.  
4    
5    Testing for the next release (0.4.5.1):
6    
7          Caches / memory hierarchies: (this is mostly MIPS-specific)  TEST DISK OVERLAY IMAGES
8                  o)  MIPS coproc.c: bits in config registers should reflect  TEST LANDISK/SUPERH EMULATION MODES
9                      correct cache sizes for _all_ CPU types. (currently only  REGRESSION TESTS FOR ALL OTHER SUPPORTED GUEST OSES
10                      implemented for R4000, R1x000, and a few others)  
11                  o)  src/memory*.c: Implement correct cache emulation for  # NetBSD/pmax 3.1 or 1.6.2      OK
12                      all CPU types. (currently only R2000/R3000 is implemented)  # NetBSD/arc 1.6.2              OK
13                      (per CPU, multiple levels should be possible,  # NetBSD/hpcmips 3.1            OK
14                      associativity etc!)  # NetBSD/cobalt 3.1             OK
15                  o)  R2000/R3000 isn't _100%_ correct, just almost correct :)  # NetBSD/evbmips 3.1            OK
16                  o)  Move the -S (fill mem with random) functionality into the  # NetBSD/algor 3.1              OK
17                      memory.c subsystem, not machine.c or wherever it is now  # NetBSD/sgimips 3.1            OK
18                  o)  ECC stuff, simulation of memory errors?  (Machine dependant)  # NetBSD/cats 3.1               OK
19                  o)  More than 4GB of emulated RAM, when run on a 32-bit host?  # NetBSD/evbarm 2.1             OK
20                      (using manual swap-out of blocks to disk, ugly)  # NetBSD/netwinder 3.1          OK
21                  o)  A global command line option should be used to turn  # NetBSD/prep 2.1               OK
22                      cache emulation on or off. When off, caches should be  # NetBSD/macppc 3.1             OK
23                      faked like they are right now. When on, caches and  # NetBSD/dreamcast 3.1 MD       OK
24                      memory latencies should be emulated as correctly as  # NetBSD/dreamcast 3.1 LiveCD   OK
25                      possible.  # Linux/dreamcast Live CD       OK
26    # OpenBSD/pmax 2.8-BETA         not tested because of lack of time
27          Network layer:  # OpenBSD/cats 4.0              OK
28                  o)  Multiple networks per emulation, and let different  # OpenBSD/landisk 4.1           OK
29                      NICs in machines connect to different networks.  # Ultrix/RISC 4.5               OK
30                  o)  Network across multiple hosts.  # Sprite for DECstation         OK
31                  o)  Fixed MAC addresses for NICs, fixed IPv4 addresses if  # Debian GNU/Linux for pmax     not tested because of lack of time
32                      DHCP or RARP is used.  
33                  o)  many other issues: see src/net.c  Optional:
34    # OpenBSD/sgi                   FAILED to boot after setup (as expected)
35          Configure script:  
36                  o)  Only enable Alpha prefetch on pca56 etc, not on ev4, ev5.  --------------------------------------------
37                  o)  Use getopts?  
38                  o)  X11 libs and headers via command line option?  Some things, in totally random order, that I'd like to fix:
39                  o)  Verify that the configure script, building and running  (Some items in this list are possibly out-of-date by now.)
40                      the emulator works on some platforms:  
41                          +)  Irix, AIX, QNX  Dyntrans:
42                          +)  MacOS X  (I've not tried this personally yet)          x)  Instruction combination collisions? How to avoid easily...
43                          +)  Ultrix using gcc? (Inside the emulator)          x)  Think about how to do both SHmedia and SHcompact in a reasonable
44                way! (Or AMD64 long/protected/real, for that matter.)
45          CPU emulation:          x)  68K emulation; think about how to do variable instruction
46                  o)  Binary translation:              lengths across page boundaries.
47                          +)  use an Intermediate Representation!          x)  Dyntrans with valgrind-inspired memory checker. (In memory_rw,
48                          +)  recursive translation?              it would be reasonably simple to add; in each individual fast
49                          +)  basic blocks instead of one-instruction? :)              load/store routine = a lot more work, and it would become
50                          +)  on Alpha: don't assume pca56-like byte load/store?              kludgy very fast.)
51                          +)  write backends for UltraSparc and MIPS          x)  Dyntrans with SMP... lots of work to be done here.
52                          +)  see src/bintrans.c for more info          x)  Dyntrans with cache emulation... lots of work here as well.
53            x)  Remove the concept of base RAM completely; it would be more
54          MIPS CPU emulation:              generic to allow RAM devices to be used "anywhere".
55                  o)  Instructions:          o)  dev_mp doesn't work well with dyntrans yet
56                          o)  Regression tests (see tests/README for more info):          o)  In general, IPIs, CAS, LL/SC etc must be made to work with dyntrans
57                                  o)  Floating point exception handling, and          x)  Redesign/rethink the delay slot mechanism used for e.g. MIPS,
58                                          add more instructions.                  so that it caches a translation (that is, an instruction
59                                  o)  Finish the MIPS16 translator, and test it!                  word and the instr_call it was translated to the last
60                                  o)  MIPS ISA I, II, III, IV                  time), so that it doesn't need to do slow
61                                  o)  MIPS V (SIMD vector stuff?)                  to_be_translated for each end of page?
62                                  o)  MDMX  (MIPS Digital Media Extension)          x)  Program Counter statistics:
63                                  o)  MIPS 3D                  Per machine? What about SMP? All data to the same file?
64                                  o)  MIPS MT (Multi-thread stuff) (What's this?)                  A debugger command should be possible to use to enable/
65                          o)  Warn about mis-used bit fields (ie bits that                  disable statistics gathering.
66                              should be all zeroes, warn about if they are not)!                  Configuration file option!
67                              Both for coprocessor registers and for instruction          x)  Breakpoints:
68                              opcodes.                  o) Physical vs virtual addresses!
69                          o)  the special2 stuff is a mess right now                  o) 32-bit vs 64-bit sign extension for MIPS, and others?
70                          o)  warn and/or cause exceptions for unimplemented          x)  INVALIDATION should cause translations in _all_ cpus to be
71                              instructions (depending on CPU type)              invalidated, e.g. on a write to a write-protected page
72                  o)  R2000/R3000:              (containing code)
73                          x)  R3000 "tri-byte stores". (What's this?)          x)  16-bit encodings? (MIPS16, ARM Thumb, 32-bit SH on SH64)
74                  o)  R4000 and others:          x)  Lots of other stuff: see src/cpus/README_DYNTRANS
75                          x)  watchhi/watchlo exceptions, and other exception          x)  Native code generation backends:
76                              handling details                  o)  think carefully about this.
77                  o)  R10000 and others:  (R12000, R14000 ?)                  o)  simple syntax for emitting opcodes; backend implementation
78                          x)  memory space, exceptions, ...                      must be optional, so I don't have to write more code
79                          x)  use cop0 framemask for tlb lookups                      than necessary. after all, the non-native (C) code should
80                              (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)                      always work.
81                  o)  Implement load delays?  Warnings on interlocks.                  o)  convert into native code only after an entire
82                  o)  Implement all coprocessor 0 bits / functions.                          block has been translated? probably best.
83                          x)  coproc 0 selectors! (R4000 ?)                  o)  the "almost native" opcodes may be rearranged,
84                  o)  R4300 (nintendo64, no mmu?), R5900 (playstation2, weird                      "peep-hole optimized", etc. and then as a separate step
85                          TLB/cache? 128-bit GPRs, new instructions),                      this list of almost native opcodes is written out
86                          4K (note: NOT R4000), 5K (note: NOT R5000),                      as native code.
87                          R6000 (ISA II), R8000                  o)  think about delay slots at the end of a block!
88                  o)  Multi-cpu stuff:                  o)  x86/amd64 code generator can be very similar... perhaps
89                          +)  SGI's NUMA architecture. Study                  o)  NOTE that generation is per _ABI_, not per host arch!
90                                  x)  Linux sources                      the configure script must detect ABI!!!
91                                  x)  SGI's specs on NUMA address space                  o)  branches to already translated code blocks can
92                          +)  Ultrix?  NetBSD doesn't do SMP on MIPS yet :-(                          link the blocks together
93                          +)  Own experiments with ycx2.                  o)  load/store are the most important to optimize
94    
95          Emulation of specific machines and devices:  Simple Valgrind-like checks?
96                  o)  Clean up stuff to make it possible to emulate multiple          o)  Mark every address with bits which tell whether or not the address
97                      (different) machines simultaneously.              has been written to.
98                  o)  Use same clock for all emulations and machines.          o)  What should happen when programs are loaded?  Text/data, bss (zero
99                  o)  Clean up the device stuff (registering of devices etc)              filled). But stack space and heap is uninitialized.
100                  o)  Various SCSI and IDE controllers          o)  Uninitialized local variables:
101                  o)  PS/2-style keyboard controller (for several machines)                  A load from a place on the stack which has not previously
102                  o)  Generic busses;                  been stored to => warning. Increasing the stack pointer using
103                          x)  PCI:  i/o and interrupts                  any available means should reset the memory to uninitialized.
104                          x)  QBus-22 (DECsystem 5500, 5400?)          o)  If calls to malloc() and free() can be intercepted:
105                  o)  DECstations (pmax):                  o)  Access to a memory area after free() => warning.
106                          x)  ioasic                  o)  Memory returned by malloc() is marked as not-initialized.
107                          x)  framebuffers:                  o)  Non-passive, but good to have: Change the argument
108                                  +)  better cursor support, overlays?,                      given to malloc, to return a slightly larger memory
109                                  +)  2D/3D acceleration, PX[G]                      area, i.e.  margin_before + size + margin_after,
110                          x)  status words / control words, make this more                      and return the pointer  + margin_before.
111                                  portable/cleaner                      Any access to the margin_before or _after space results
112                          x)  scsi controller(s): sii, DMA for asc                      in warnings. (free() must be modified to free the
113                          x)  serial controllers: ssc, scc (and more work on dc?)                      actually allocated address.)
114                          x)  nvram on decstation 5000/125:  when using X11,  
115                                  set console=g or similar  MIPS:
116                          x)  DECstation 5840? "xbi-based SMP"          o)  Nicer MIPS status bits in register dumps.
117                  o)  SGI and ARC machines (sgimips, arc):          o)  Alignment exceptions.
118                          x)  IP32 ("O2"): (Lots of stuff)          o)  Floating point exception correctness.
119                                  +)  mec (ethernet)          o)  Fix this? Triggered by NetBSD/sgimips? Hm:
120                                  +)  pci                  to_be_translated(): TODO: unimplemented instruction:
121                                  +)  ahc (scsi)                  000000000065102c: 00200800 (d)  rot_00  at,zr,0
122                                  +)  ps2 kbd          o)  Some more work on opcodes.
123                                  +)  memory controller                  x) MIPS64 revision 2.
124                                  +)  framebuffer/graphics                          o)  Find out which actual CPUs implement the rev2 ISA!
125                                  +)  caches                          o)  DROTR32 and similar MIPS64 rev 2 instructions,
126                          x)  more ARCBIOS stuff                              which have a rotation bit which differs from
127                          x)  Memory/interrupt controllers                              previous ISAs.
128                          x)  IP30 (Linux with graphics support?)                          o)  EI and DI instructions for MIPS64/32 rev 2.
129                          x)  SMP / NUMA?  (SGI and various ARC machines)                              NOTE: These are _NOT_ the same as for R5900!
130                  o)  Cobalt:  PCI and interrupt system, ethernet,                  x) _MAYBE_ TX79 and R5900 actually differ in their
131                          harddisk controller(s)                     opcodes? Check this carefully!
132                  o)  Playstation 2:          o)  Dyntrans: Count register updates are probably not 100% correct yet.
133                          Hardware:  OHCI usb controller, keyboard, IDE, ...          o)  Refactor code for performance and readability/maintainability.
134                          Has an R3000A as a subsystem (!)          o)  (Re)implement 128-bit loads/stores for R5900.
135                  o)  hpcmips:  framebuffer(s) and harddisk controller,          o)  R4000 and others:
136                          among other things                  x)  watchhi/watchlo exceptions, and other exception
137                  o)  newsmips:                      handling details
138                          o)  NetBSD/newsmips, get it to detect a "real"          o)  R10000 and others:  (R12000, R14000 ?)
139                              model, right now everything is 100% bogus                  x)  The code before the line
140                  o)  Less interesting platforms:                          /*  reg[COP0_PAGEMASK] = cpu->cd.mips.coproc[0]->tlbs[0].mask & PAGEMASK_MASK;  */
141                          o)  mipsco? (NetBSD)                      in cpu_mips.c is not correct for R10000 according to
142                          o)  wgrisc? (big endian R3000, in OpenBSD's attic)                      Lemote's Godson patches for GXemul. TODO: Go through all
143                          o)  other embedded / evaluation MIPS boards                      register definitions according to http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi/hdwr/bks/SGI_Developer/books/R10K_UM/sgi_html/t5.Ver.2.0.book_263.html#HEADING334
144                          o)  Playstation 1? R3000A. Weird hardware?                      and make sure everything works with R10000.
145                                  No FPU, but something as coproc 2.                      Then test with OpenBSD/sgi?
146                          o)  Nintendo 64, http://www.nintendo.com/systems/n64/n64_specs.jsp                  x)  Entry LO mask (as above).
147                                  (R4300, 4MB RAM, really weird memory map)                  x)  memory space, exceptions, ...
148                    x)  use cop0 framemask for tlb lookups
149          File/disk handling:                      (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)
150                  o)  Read function argument count and types from binaries? (ELF?)  
151                  o)  ELF: separate LE/BE (MIPS instruction format) from LSB/MSB  SuperH:
152                          (ELF structure format)?          x)  SH4 performance is VERY low when running user-space instructions,
153                  o)  Better handling of tape files              because I actually simulate the 4-entry ITLB as being separate
154                from the 64-entry DTLB. This is correct, but VERY slow. I need
155          Userland ABI emulation:              to experiment with _not_ simulating it in too much detail.
156                  o)  see src/useremul.c          x)  SH4 interrupt controller:
157                    x)  MASKING should be possible!
158          Terminal based interactive debugger:          x)  SH4 DMA (0xffa00000)
159                  o)  see src/debugger.c          x)  SH4 UBC (0xff200000)
160            x)  Store queues can copy 32 bytes at a time, there's no need to
161          GDB interface? (Maybe not necessary; the built-in debugger feels              copy individual 32-bit words. (Performance improvement.)
162          more useful.)          x)  SH4 BSC (Bus State Controller)
163            x)  Instruction tracing should include symbols for branch targets,
164          GUI, interactive debugger?  GTK+?  (The GUI _must be optional_!)              and so on, to make the output more human readable.
165                  o)  Breakpoints (complex expressions? combinations of register          x)  SH3-specific devices: Pretty much everything!
166                          states, memory accesses and so on)          x)  NetBSD/evbsh3, mmeye, hpcsh! Linux?
167                  o)  Instruction trace          x)  Replace pc-relative loads with immediate load, if within the
168                  o)  Disassembly of RAM (_NOT_ the same as instruction trace)              same page. (Similar to the same optimization for ARM.)
169                  o)  Function call trace          x)  Floating point speed!
170                  o)  Inspection of CPU registers/state, coprocessor          x)  Floating point exception correctness.
171                          registers/state, any device registers/state/contents          x)  NetBSD HEAD (as of April 2007) hangs during bootup, because it
172                          o)  Framebuffers in windows / tabs.              turns on/off interrupts in an unfortunately synchronized way
173                          o)  Contents of RAM              with dyntrans. This needs to be fixed.
174                  o)  "Start new emulation" should allow amount of          x)  Exceptions for unaligned load/stores. OpenBSD/landisk uses
175                          RAM and nr of cpus to easily be specified.              this mechanism for its reboot code (machine_reset).
176                          Multiple simultaneous machines should be possible.          x)  Think carefully about how to implement SH5/SH64 (for evbsh5).
177                  o)  Disk images.  
178    Landisk SH4:
179          Regression tests:          x)  When NetBSD/landisk 4.0 has been released, make sure it works
180                  o)  see tests/              in the emulator. (Update documentation, etc.)
181    
182          Save state of the whole emulated machine, to be able to load it back  Dreamcast:
183                  in later?  (Memory, all device's states, all registers and          x)  G2 DMA
184                  so on.  Like taking a snapshot. (SimOS seems to do this,          x)  LAN adapter (dev_mb8696x.c).  NetBSD root-on-nfs.
185                  according to its website.))          x)  PVR:  Lots of stuff. See dev_pvr.c.
186            x)  Better GDROM support
187          Better X-windows functionality:          x)  Modem
188                  o)  CLEAN UP the ugly event code          x)  PCI bridge/bus?
189                  o)  Mouse clicks can be "missed" in the current system; this is          x)  Maple bus:
190                      not good. They should be put on a stack of some kind.                  x)  Correct controller input
191                  o)  More 2D and 3D framebuffer acceleration.                  x)  Mouse input
192                  o)  Non-resizable windows?  Or choose scaledown depending          x)  Software emulation of BIOS calls:
193                          on size (and center the image, with a black border).                  x)  GD-ROM emulation: Use the GDROM device.
194                  o)  Different scaledown on different windows?                  x)  Use the VGA font as a fake ROM font. (Better than
195                  o)  Switch scaledown during runtime? (Ala CTRL-ALT-plus/minus)                      nothing.)
196                  o)  Keyboard and mouse events:          x)  Make as many as possible of the KOS examples run!
197                          x)  Do this for more machines than just DECstation          x)  More homebrew demos/games.
198                          x)  more X11 cursor keycodes          x)  SPU: Sound emulation (ARM cpu).
199                          x)  Keys like CTRL, ALT, SHIFT do not get through          x)  VME processor emulation? "(Sanyo LC8670 "Potato")" according to
200                              by themselves (these are necessary for example              Wikipedia, LC86K87 according to Comstedt's page. See
201                              to change the font of an xterm in X in the              http://www.maushammer.com/vmu.html for a good description of
202                              emulator)              the differences between LC86104C and the one used in the VME.
203                  o)  Generalize the framebuffer stuff by moving _ALL_ X11  
204                          specific code to src/x11.c!  Alpha:
205            x)  OSF1 PALcode, Virtual memory support.
206          Statistics:  (this could be interesting)          x)  PALcode replacement! PAL1E etc opcodes...?
207                  o)  Save to file and show graphics. It should be possible to          x)  Interrupt/exception/trap handling.
208                      run gxemul after a simulation to just show the graphics,          x)  Floating point exception correctness.
209                      or convert to a .ppm or .tga or similar.          x)  More work on bootup memory and register contents.
210                  o)  memory accesses (to measure cache efficiency and          x)  More Alpha machine types, so it could work with
211                          page coloring efficiency)              OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux too?
212                  o)  nr of simultaneous ASIDs in use in the TLB, for MIPS  
213                  o)  percentage of time spent in different "states", such as  SPARC (both the ISA and the machines):
214                      running userland code, kernel code, or idling (for CPUs          o)  Implement Adress space identifiers; load/stores etc.
215                      that have such an instruction, or whenever the PC is          o)  Exception/trap/interrupt handling.
216                      inside a specific idle-function (address range)).          o)  Save/restore register windows etc! Both v9 and pre-v9!
217                      Possible additional state (for example on R3000): caches          o)  Finish the subcc and addcc flag computation code.
218                      disabled.          o)  Add more registers (floating point, control regs etc)
219                  o)  position of read/write on (SCSI) disks          o)  Disassemly of some more instructions?
220            o)  Are sll etc 32-bit sign-extending or zero-extending?
221            o)  Floating point exception correctness.
222            o)  SPARC v8, v7 etc?
223            o)  More machine modes and devices.
224    
225    Debugger:
226            o)  How does SMP debugging work? Does it simply use "threads"?
227                    What if the guest OS (running on an emulated SMP machine)
228                    has a usertask running, with userland threads?
229            o)  Try to make the debugger more modular and, if possible, reentrant!
230            o)  Remove the emul command? (But show network info if showing
231                    machines?)
232            o)  Evaluate expressions within []? That would allow stuff like
233                    cpu[x] where x is an expression.
234            o)  Settings:
235                    x)  Special handlers for Write!
236                            +)  MIPS coproc regs
237                            +)  Alpha/MIPS/SPARC zero registers
238                            +)  x86 64/32/16-bit registers
239                    x)  Value formatter for resulting output.
240            o)  see src/debugger.c for more
241    
242    POWER/PowerPC:
243            x)  Fix DECR timer speed, so it matches the host.
244            x)  NetBSD/prep 3.x triggers a possible bug in the emulator:
245                <wdc_exec_command(0xd005e514,0xd60cdd30,0,8,..)>
246                  <ata_get_xfer(0,0xd60cdd30,0,8,..)>
247                    <0x26c550(&ata_xfer_pool,2,0,8,..)>
248                    <0x35c71c(0x3f27000,0,52,8,..)>
249                  <ata_exec_xfer(0xd005e4c8,0x3f27000,0,13,..)>
250                    <atastart(0xd005e4c8,0x3f27000,0,13,..)>
251                      <__wdccommand_start(0xd005e4c8,0x3f27000,0,13,..)>
252                        <bsw1(&prep_isa_io_space_tag,0x800001f6,0,176,..)>
253                    [ wdc: write to SDH: 0xb0 (sectorsize 2, lba=1, drive 1, head 0) ]
254                        <wdcwait(0xd005e4c8,72,64,0xbb8,..)>
255                          <0x198120(0xd005e4c8,72,64,0xbb8,..)>
256                            <bsr1(&prep_isa_io_space_tag,0,0,0xbb8,..)>
257                            <delay(100,0,0,0xbb8,..)>
258                Note: <bsr1(&prep_isa_io_space_tag,0,0,0xbb8,..)>
259            x)  PPC optimizations; instr combs
260            x)  64-bit stuff: either Linux on G5, or perhaps some hobbyist
261                    version of AIX? (if there exists such a thing)
262            x)  macppc: adb controller; keyboard (for framebuffer mode)
263            x)  make OpenBSD/macppc work (PCI controller stuff)
264            x)  Floating point exception correctness.
265            x)  Alignment exceptions.
266    
267    PReP:
268            x)  Clock time! ("Bad battery blah blah")
269    
270    Algor:
271            o)  Other models than the P5064?
272            o)  PCI interrupts... needed for stuff like the tlp NIC?
273    
274    BeBox:
275            o)  Interrupts. There seems to be a problem with WDC interrupts
276                "after a short while", although a few interrupts get through?
277            o)  Perhaps find a copy of BeOS and try it?
278    
279    HPCmips:
280            x)  Mouse/pad support! :)
281            x)  A NIC? (As a PCMCIA device?)
282    
283    M88K:
284            o)  Everything. :)
285                    o)  More instruction disassembly!
286                    o)  Implement more instructions.
287                    o)  has-delay-slot (for debugging)
288                    o)  Find manuals!
289                    o)  MMU stuff
290                    o)  Exceptions
291                    o)  FPU
292                    o)  Control registers
293    
294    AVR:
295            o)  Everything.
296    
297    ARM:
298            o)  See netwinder_reset() in NetBSD; the current "an internal error
299                occured" message after reboot/halt is too ugly.
300            o)  ARM "wait"-like instruction?
301            o)  try to get netbsd/evbarm 3.x or 4.x running (iq80321)
302            o)  make the xscale counter registers (ccnt) work
303            o)  make the ata controller usable for FreeBSD!
304            o)  Zaurus emulation:
305                    x)  OpenBSD/zaurus
306                    x)  NetBSD/zaurus? See the following URL:
307                        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2006/11/19/0000.html
308            o)  Debian/cats crashes because of unimplemented coproc stuff.
309                fix this?
310    
311    Test machines:
312            o)  dev_fb block fill and copy
313            o)  dev_fb draw characters (from the built-in font)?
314            o)  dev_fb input device? mouse pointer coordinates and buttons
315                    (allow changes in these to cause interrupts as well?)
316            o)  Redefine the halt() function so that it stops "sometimes
317                soon", i.e. usage in demo code should be:
318                    for (;;) {
319                            halt();
320                    }
321    
322    Better CD Image file support:
323            x)  Support CD formats that contain more than 1 track, e.g.
324                CDI files (?). These can then contain a mixture of e.g. sound
325                and data tracks, and booting from an ISO filesystem path
326                would boot from [by default] the first data track.
327                (This would make sense for e.g. Dreamcast CD images, or
328                possibly other live-CD formats.)
329    
330    Networking:
331            x)  Redesign of the networking subsystem, at least the NAT translation
332                    part. The current way of allowing raw ethernet frames to be
333                    transfered to/from the emulator via UDP should probably be
334                    extended to allow the frames to be transmitted other ways as
335                    well.
336            x)  Also adding support for connecting ttys (either to xterms, or to
337                    pipes/sockets etc, or even to PPP->NAT or SLIP->NAT :-).
338            x)  Documentation updates (!) are very important, making it easier to
339                    use the (already existing) network emulation features.
340            x)  Fix performance problems caused by only allowing a
341                single TCP packet to be unacked.
342            x)  Don't hardcode offsets into packets!
343            x)  Test with lower than 100 max tcp/udp connections,
344                to make sure that reuse works!
345            x)  Make OpenBSD work better as a guest OS!
346            x)  DHCP? Debian doesn't actually send DHCP packets, even
347                    though it claims to? So it is hard to test.
348            x)  Multiple networks per emulation, and let different
349                NICs in machines connect to different networks.
350            x)  Support VDE (vde.sf.net)? Easiest/cleanest (before a
351                redesign of the network framework has been done) is
352                probably to connect it using the current (udp) solution.
353            x)  Allow SLIP connections, possibly PPP, in addition to
354                ethernet?
355    
356    Cache simulation:
357            o)  Command line flags for:
358                    o)  CPU endianness?
359                    o)  Cache sizes? (multiple levels)
360            o)  Separate from the CPU concept, so that multi-core CPUs sharing
361                e.g. a L2 cache can be simulated (?)
362            o)  Instruction cache emulation is easiest (if separate from the
363                data cache); similar hack as the S;I; hack in cpu_dyntrans.c.
364                NOTE: if the architecture has a delay slot, then an instruction
365                slot can actually be executed as 2 instructions.
366            o)  Data cache emulation = harder; each arch's load/store routines
367                must include support? running one instruction at a time and
368                having a cpu-dependant lookup function for each instruction
369                is another option (easier to implement, but very very slow).
370    
371    Documentation:
372            x)  Note about sandboxing/security:
373                    Not all emulated instructions fail in the way they would
374                    do on real hardware (e.g. a userspace program writing to
375                    a system register might work in GXemul, but it would
376                    fail on real hardware).  Sandbox = contain from the
377                    host OS. But the emulated programs will run "less
378                    securely".
379            x)  Try NetBSD/arc 4.x! (It seems to work with disk images!)
380            x)  NetBSD/pmax 4 install instructions: xterm instead of vt100!
381            x)  BETTER DEVICE EXAMPLES!
382                    o)  Move away from technical.html to somewhere new.
383                    o)  DEVICE_TICK
384                    o)  Implement example devices using interrupts, dyntrans
385                        memory access, etc.?
386            x)  Document the dyntrans core?
387            x)  Rewrite the section about experimental devices, after the
388                framebuffer acceleration has been implemented, and demos
389                written. (Symbolic names instead of numbers; example
390                use cases, etc. Mention demo files that use the various
391                features?)
392            x)  "a very simple linear framebuffer device (for graphics output)"
393                under "which machines does gxemul emulate" ==> better
394                description?
395            x)  Better description on how to set up a cross compiler?
396                Example for MIPS64.
397            o)  Automagic documentation generation?
398                    x)  machines, cpus, devices.
399                    x)  REMEMBER that several machines/devices can be in
400                            the same source file!
401            o)  Try to rewrite the install instructions for those machines
402                that use 3MAX into using CATS or hpcmips? (To remove the need
403                to use a raw ffs partition, using up all of the disk image.)
404    
405    More generic out_of_memory error reporting, and check everywhere!
406            Causes: OpenBSD has low default limits for normal users.
407                    Host is 32-bit? (32-bit hosts are limited to 4 GB or less
408                    of userspace memory.)
409                    You are actually low on RAM. (As trivial as this might sound,
410                    Unix systems usually allow processes to allocate virtual
411                    memory beyond the amount of RAM in the machine.)
412    
413    The Device subsystem:
414            x)  allow devices to be moved and/or changed in size (down to a
415                minimum size, etc, or up to a max size); if there is a collision,
416                return false. It is up to the caller to handle this situation!
417            x)  NOTE: Translations must be invalidated, both for
418                registering new devices, and for moving existing ones.
419                cpu->invalidate translation caches, for all CPUs that
420                are connected to a specific memory.
421            x)  keep track of interrupts and busses? actually, allowing any device
422                to be a bus might be a nice idea.
423            x)  turn interrupt controllers into devices? :-)
424            x)  refactor various clocks/nvram/cmos into one device?
425    
426    PCI:
427            x)  Pretty much everything related to runtime configuration, device
428                slots, interrupts, etc must be redesigned/cleaned up. The current
429                code is very hardcoded and ugly.
430            o)  Allow cards to be added/removed during runtime more easily.
431            o)  Allow cards to be enabled/disabled (i/o ports, etc, like
432                NetBSD needs for disk controller detection).
433            o)  Allow devices to be moved in memory during runtime.
434            o)  Interrupts per PCI slot, etc. (A-D).
435            o)  PCI interrupt controller logic... very hard to get right,
436                because these differ a lot from one machine to the next.
437            x)  last write was ffffffff ==> fix this, it should be used
438                together with a mask to get the correct bits. also, not ALL
439                bits are size bits! (lowest 4 vs lowest 2?)
440            x)  add support for address fixups
441            x)  generalize the interrupt routing stuff (lines etc)
442    
443    Clocks and timers:
444            x)  Fix the PowerPC DECR interrupt speed! (MacPPC and PReP speed, etc.)
445            x)  DON'T HARDCODE 100 HZ IN cpu_mips_coproc.c!
446            x)  Test the 8253? Right now it doesn't seem to be used?
447            x)  NetWinder timeofday is incorrect! It seems to be exactly
448                1 day ahead of actual time?
449            x)  Cobalt TOD is incorrect!
450            x)  Go through all other machines, one by one, and fix them.
451    
452    Config file parser:
453            o)  Rewrite it from scratch!
454            o)  Usage of any expression available through the debugger
455            o)  Allow interrupt controllers to be added! and interrupts
456                to be used in more ways than before
457            o)  Support for running debugger commands (like the -c
458                command line option)
459    
460    Floating point layer:
461            o)  make it common enough to be used by _all_ emulation modes
462            o)  implement correct error/exception handling and rounding modes
463            o)  implement more helper functions (i.e. add, sub, mul...)
464            o)  non-IEEE modes (i.e. x86)?
465    
466    Userland emulation:
467            x)  Dynamic linking!
468            x)  Lots of stuff; freebsd, netbsd, linux, ... syscalls.
469            x)  Initial register/stack contents (environment, command line args).
470            x)  Return value (from main).
471            x)  mmap emulation layer
472            x)  errno emulation layer
473            x)  struct conversions for may syscalls
474    
475    Sound:
476            x)  generic sound framework
477            x)  add one or more sound cards as devices; add a testmachine
478                sound card first?
479            x)  Dreamcast sound? Generic PCI sound cards?
480    
481    ASC SCSI controller:
482            x)  NetBSD/arc 2.0 uses the ASC controller in a way which GXemul
483                cannot yet handle. (NetBSD 1.6.2 works ok.) (Possibly a problem
484                in NetBSD itself, http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/
485                2005/11/06/0024.html suggests that.)
486                NetBSD 4.x seems to work? :)
487    
488    Caches / memory hierarchies: (this is mostly MIPS-specific)
489            o)  src/memory*.c: Implement correct cache emulation for
490                all CPU types. (currently only R2000/R3000 is implemented)
491                (per CPU, multiple levels should be possible, associativity etc!)
492            o)  R2000/R3000 isn't _100%_ correct, just almost correct :)
493            o)  Move the -S (fill mem with random) functionality into the
494                memory.c subsystem, not machine.c or wherever it is now
495            o)  ECC stuff, simulation of memory errors?  (Machine dependent)
496            o)  More than 4GB of emulated RAM, when run on a 32-bit host?
497                (using manual swap-out of blocks to disk, ugly)
498            o)  A global command line option should be used to turn
499                cache emulation on or off. When off, caches should be
500                faked like they are right now. When on, caches and
501                memory latencies should be emulated as correctly as
502                possible.
503    
504    File/disk/symbol handling:
505            o)  Make sure that disks can be added/removed during runtime!
506                (Perhaps this needs a reasonably large re-write.)
507            o)  Remove some of the complexity in file format guessing, for
508                    Ultrix kernels that are actually disk images?
509            o)  Better handling of tape files      
510            o)  Read function argument count and types from binaries? (ELF?)
511            o)  Better demangling of C++ names. Note: GNU's C++ differs from e.g.
512                Microsoft's C++, so multiple schemes must be possible. See
513                URL at top of src/symbol_demangle.c for more info.
514    
515    Userland ABI emulation:
516            o)  see src/useremul.c
517    
518    Better framebuffer and X-windows functionality:
519            o)  Generalize the update_x1y1x2y2 stuff to an extend-region()
520                function...
521            o)  -Yx sometimes causes crashes.
522            o)  Simple device access to framebuffer_blockcopyfill() etc,
523                and text output (using the built-in fonts), for dev_fb.
524            o)  CLEAN UP the ugly event code
525            o)  Mouse clicks can be "missed" in the current system; this is
526                not good. They should be put on a stack of some kind.
527            o)  More 2D and 3D framebuffer acceleration.
528            o)  Non-resizable windows?  Or choose scaledown depending
529                    on size (and center the image, with a black border).
530            o)  Different scaledown on different windows?
531            o)  Non-integral scale-up? (E.g. 640x480 -> 1024x768)
532            o)  Switch scaledown during runtime? (Ala CTRL-ALT-plus/minus)
533            o)  Bug reported by Elijah Rutschman on MacOS with weird
534                keys (F5 = cursor down?).
535            o)  Keyboard and mouse events:
536                    x)  Do this for more machines than just DECstation
537                    x)  more X11 cursor keycodes
538                    x)  Keys like CTRL, ALT, SHIFT do not get through
539                        by themselves (these are necessary for example
540                        to change the font of an xterm in X in the
541                        emulator)
542            o)  Generalize the framebuffer stuff by moving _ALL_ X11
543                    specific code to src/x11.c!
544    

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