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1  $Id: TODO,v 1.133 2005/05/25 06:40:16 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          Caches / memory hierarchies: (this is mostly MIPS-specific)  Testing for the next release (0.4.5.1):
6                  o)  MIPS coproc.c: bits in config registers should reflect  
7                      correct cache sizes for _all_ CPU types. (currently only  TEST DISK OVERLAY IMAGES
8                      implemented for R4000, R1x000, and a few others)  TEST LANDISK/SUPERH EMULATION MODES
9                  o)  src/memory*.c: Implement correct cache emulation for  REGRESSION TESTS FOR ALL OTHER SUPPORTED GUEST OSES
10                      all CPU types. (currently only R2000/R3000 is implemented)  
11                      (per CPU, multiple levels should be possible,  # NetBSD/pmax 3.1 or 1.6.2      OK
12                      associativity etc!)  # NetBSD/arc 1.6.2              OK
13                  o)  R2000/R3000 isn't _100%_ correct, just almost correct :)  # NetBSD/hpcmips 3.1            OK
14                  o)  Move the -S (fill mem with random) functionality into the  # NetBSD/cobalt 3.1             OK
15                      memory.c subsystem, not machine.c or wherever it is now  # NetBSD/evbmips 3.1            OK
16                  o)  ECC stuff, simulation of memory errors?  (Machine dependant)  # NetBSD/algor 3.1              OK
17                  o)  More than 4GB of emulated RAM, when run on a 32-bit host?  # NetBSD/sgimips 3.1            OK
18                      (using manual swap-out of blocks to disk, ugly)  # NetBSD/cats 3.1               OK
19                  o)  A global command line option should be used to turn  # NetBSD/evbarm 2.1             OK
20                      cache emulation on or off. When off, caches should be  # NetBSD/netwinder 3.1          OK
21                      faked like they are right now. When on, caches and  # NetBSD/prep 2.1               OK
22                      memory latencies should be emulated as correctly as  # NetBSD/macppc 3.1             OK
23                      possible.  # NetBSD/dreamcast 3.1 MD       OK
24    # NetBSD/dreamcast 3.1 LiveCD   OK
25          Network layer:  # Linux/dreamcast Live CD       OK
26                  o)  Multiple networks per emulation, and let different  # OpenBSD/pmax 2.8-BETA         not tested because of lack of time
27                      NICs in machines connect to different networks.  # OpenBSD/cats 4.0              OK
28                  o)  Network across multiple hosts.  # OpenBSD/landisk 4.1           OK
29                  o)  Fixed MAC addresses for NICs, fixed IPv4 addresses if  # Ultrix/RISC 4.5               OK
30                      DHCP or RARP is used.  # Sprite for DECstation         OK
31                  o)  many other issues: see src/net.c  # Debian GNU/Linux for pmax     not tested because of lack of time
32    
33          Configure script:  Optional:
34                  o)  Only enable Alpha prefetch on pca56 etc, not on ev4, ev5.  # OpenBSD/sgi                   FAILED to boot after setup (as expected)
35                  o)  Use getopts?  
36                  o)  X11 libs and headers via command line option?  --------------------------------------------
37                  o)  Verify that the configure script, building and running  
38                      the emulator works on some platforms:  Some things, in totally random order, that I'd like to fix:
39                          +)  Irix, AIX, QNX  (Some items in this list are possibly out-of-date by now.)
40                          +)  MacOS X  (I've not tried this personally yet)  
41                          +)  Ultrix using gcc? (Inside the emulator)  Dyntrans:
42            x)  Instruction combination collisions? How to avoid easily...
43          CPU emulation:          x)  Think about how to do both SHmedia and SHcompact in a reasonable
44                  o)  Binary translation:              way! (Or AMD64 long/protected/real, for that matter.)
45                          +)  use an Intermediate Representation!          x)  68K emulation; think about how to do variable instruction
46                          +)  recursive translation?              lengths across page boundaries.
47                          +)  basic blocks instead of one-instruction? :)          x)  Dyntrans with valgrind-inspired memory checker. (In memory_rw,
48                          +)  on Alpha: don't assume pca56-like byte load/store?              it would be reasonably simple to add; in each individual fast
49                          +)  write backends for UltraSparc and MIPS              load/store routine = a lot more work, and it would become
50                          +)  see src/bintrans.c for more info              kludgy very fast.)
51                  o)  All the non-MIPS modes need a bit of work.          x)  Dyntrans with SMP... lots of work to be done here.
52            x)  Dyntrans with cache emulation... lots of work here as well.
53          MIPS CPU emulation:          x)  Remove the concept of base RAM completely; it would be more
54                  o)  Instructions:              generic to allow RAM devices to be used "anywhere".
55                          o)  Regression tests (see tests/README for more info):          o)  dev_mp doesn't work well with dyntrans yet
56                                  o)  Floating point exception handling, and          o)  In general, IPIs, CAS, LL/SC etc must be made to work with dyntrans
57                                          add more instructions.          x)  Redesign/rethink the delay slot mechanism used for e.g. MIPS,
58                                  o)  Finish the MIPS16 translator, and test it!                  so that it caches a translation (that is, an instruction
59                                  o)  MIPS ISA I, II, III, IV                  word and the instr_call it was translated to the last
60                                  o)  MIPS V (SIMD vector stuff?)                  time), so that it doesn't need to do slow
61                                  o)  MDMX  (MIPS Digital Media Extension)                  to_be_translated for each end of page?
62                                  o)  MIPS 3D          x)  Program Counter statistics:
63                                  o)  MIPS MT (Multi-thread stuff) (What's this?)                  Per machine? What about SMP? All data to the same file?
64                          o)  Warn about mis-used bit fields (ie bits that                  A debugger command should be possible to use to enable/
65                              should be all zeroes, warn about if they are not)!                  disable statistics gathering.
66                              Both for coprocessor registers and for instruction                  Configuration file option!
67                              opcodes.          x)  Breakpoints:
68                          o)  the special2 stuff is a mess right now                  o) Physical vs virtual addresses!
69                          o)  warn and/or cause exceptions for unimplemented                  o) 32-bit vs 64-bit sign extension for MIPS, and others?
70                              instructions (depending on CPU type)          x)  INVALIDATION should cause translations in _all_ cpus to be
71                  o)  R2000/R3000:              invalidated, e.g. on a write to a write-protected page
72                          x)  R3000 "tri-byte stores". (What's this?)              (containing code)
73                  o)  R4000 and others:          x)  16-bit encodings? (MIPS16, ARM Thumb, 32-bit SH on SH64)
74                          x)  watchhi/watchlo exceptions, and other exception          x)  Lots of other stuff: see src/cpus/README_DYNTRANS
75                              handling details          x)  Native code generation backends:
76                  o)  R10000 and others:  (R12000, R14000 ?)                  o)  think carefully about this.
77                          x)  memory space, exceptions, ...                  o)  simple syntax for emitting opcodes; backend implementation
78                          x)  use cop0 framemask for tlb lookups                      must be optional, so I don't have to write more code
79                              (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)                      than necessary. after all, the non-native (C) code should
80                  o)  Implement load delays?  Warnings on interlocks.                      always work.
81                  o)  Implement all coprocessor 0 bits / functions.                  o)  convert into native code only after an entire
82                          x)  coproc 0 selectors! (R4000 ?)                          block has been translated? probably best.
83                  o)  R4300 (nintendo64, no mmu?), R5900 (playstation2, weird                  o)  the "almost native" opcodes may be rearranged,
84                          TLB/cache? 128-bit GPRs, new instructions),                      "peep-hole optimized", etc. and then as a separate step
85                          4K (note: NOT R4000), 5K (note: NOT R5000),                      this list of almost native opcodes is written out
86                          R6000 (ISA II), R8000                      as native code.
87                  o)  Multi-cpu stuff:                  o)  think about delay slots at the end of a block!
88                          +)  SGI's NUMA architecture. Study                  o)  x86/amd64 code generator can be very similar... perhaps
89                                  x)  Linux sources                  o)  NOTE that generation is per _ABI_, not per host arch!
90                                  x)  SGI's specs on NUMA address space                      the configure script must detect ABI!!!
91                          +)  Ultrix?  NetBSD doesn't do SMP on MIPS yet :-(                  o)  branches to already translated code blocks can
92                          +)  Own experiments with ycx2.                          link the blocks together
93                    o)  load/store are the most important to optimize
94          Emulation of specific machines and devices:  
95                  o)  Clean up stuff to make it possible to emulate multiple  Simple Valgrind-like checks?
96                      (different) machines simultaneously.          o)  Mark every address with bits which tell whether or not the address
97                  o)  Use same clock for all emulations and machines.              has been written to.
98                  o)  Clean up the device stuff (registering of devices etc)          o)  What should happen when programs are loaded?  Text/data, bss (zero
99                  o)  Various SCSI and IDE controllers              filled). But stack space and heap is uninitialized.
100                  o)  PS/2-style keyboard controller (for several machines)          o)  Uninitialized local variables:
101                  o)  Generic busses;                  A load from a place on the stack which has not previously
102                          x)  PCI:  i/o and interrupts                  been stored to => warning. Increasing the stack pointer using
103                          x)  QBus-22 (DECsystem 5500, 5400?)                  any available means should reset the memory to uninitialized.
104                  o)  DECstations (pmax):          o)  If calls to malloc() and free() can be intercepted:
105                          x)  ioasic                  o)  Access to a memory area after free() => warning.
106                          x)  framebuffers:                  o)  Memory returned by malloc() is marked as not-initialized.
107                                  +)  better cursor support, overlays?,                  o)  Non-passive, but good to have: Change the argument
108                                  +)  2D/3D acceleration, PX[G]                      given to malloc, to return a slightly larger memory
109                          x)  status words / control words, make this more                      area, i.e.  margin_before + size + margin_after,
110                                  portable/cleaner                      and return the pointer  + margin_before.
111                          x)  scsi controller(s): sii, DMA for asc                      Any access to the margin_before or _after space results
112                          x)  serial controllers: ssc, scc (and more work on dc?)                      in warnings. (free() must be modified to free the
113                          x)  nvram on decstation 5000/125:  when using X11,                      actually allocated address.)
114                                  set console=g or similar  
115                          x)  DECstation 5840? "xbi-based SMP"  MIPS:
116                  o)  SGI and ARC machines (sgimips, arc):          o)  Nicer MIPS status bits in register dumps.
117                          x)  IP32 ("O2"): (Lots of stuff)          o)  Alignment exceptions.
118                                  +)  mec (ethernet)          o)  Floating point exception correctness.
119                                  +)  pci          o)  Fix this? Triggered by NetBSD/sgimips? Hm:
120                                  +)  ahc (scsi)                  to_be_translated(): TODO: unimplemented instruction:
121                                  +)  ps2 kbd                  000000000065102c: 00200800 (d)  rot_00  at,zr,0
122                                  +)  memory controller          o)  Some more work on opcodes.
123                                  +)  framebuffer/graphics                  x) MIPS64 revision 2.
124                                  +)  caches                          o)  Find out which actual CPUs implement the rev2 ISA!
125                          x)  more ARCBIOS stuff                          o)  DROTR32 and similar MIPS64 rev 2 instructions,
126                          x)  Memory/interrupt controllers                              which have a rotation bit which differs from
127                          x)  IP30 (Linux with graphics support?)                              previous ISAs.
128                          x)  SMP / NUMA?  (SGI and various ARC machines)                          o)  EI and DI instructions for MIPS64/32 rev 2.
129                  o)  Playstation 2:                              NOTE: These are _NOT_ the same as for R5900!
130                          Hardware:  OHCI usb controller, keyboard, ...                  x) _MAYBE_ TX79 and R5900 actually differ in their
131                  o)  Cobalt:  PCI and interrupt system, ethernet,                     opcodes? Check this carefully!
132                          harddisk controller(s)          o)  Dyntrans: Count register updates are probably not 100% correct yet.
133                  o)  Less interesting platforms:          o)  Refactor code for performance and readability/maintainability.
134                          o)  newsmips:          o)  (Re)implement 128-bit loads/stores for R5900.
135                                  o)  NetBSD/newsmips, get it to detect a "real"          o)  R4000 and others:
136                                      model, right now everything is 100% bogus                  x)  watchhi/watchlo exceptions, and other exception
137                          o)  mipsco? (NetBSD)                      handling details
138                          o)  wgrisc? (big endian R3000, in OpenBSD's attic)          o)  R10000 and others:  (R12000, R14000 ?)
139                          o)  other embedded / evaluation MIPS boards                  x)  The code before the line
140                          o)  Playstation 1? R3000A. Weird hardware?                          /*  reg[COP0_PAGEMASK] = cpu->cd.mips.coproc[0]->tlbs[0].mask & PAGEMASK_MASK;  */
141                                  No FPU, but something as coproc 2.                      in cpu_mips.c is not correct for R10000 according to
142                          o)  Nintendo 64, http://www.nintendo.com/systems/n64/n64_specs.jsp                      Lemote's Godson patches for GXemul. TODO: Go through all
143                                  (R4300, 4MB RAM, really weird memory map)                      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)  non-MIPS                      and make sure everything works with R10000.
145                        Then test with OpenBSD/sgi?
146          File/disk handling:                  x)  Entry LO mask (as above).
147                  o)  More than one type of disk in a machine (say, IDE + FLOPPY,                  x)  memory space, exceptions, ...
148                      or SCSI + IDE); how to handle this nicely?                  x)  use cop0 framemask for tlb lookups
149                  o)  Read function argument count and types from binaries? (ELF?)                      (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)  ELF: separate LE/BE (MIPS instruction format) from LSB/MSB  
151                          (ELF structure format)?  SuperH:
152                  o)  Better handling of tape files          x)  SH4 performance is VERY low when running user-space instructions,
153                  o)  gzip support (also for non-ISO9660 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          Terminal/console stuff:              copy individual 32-bit words. (Performance improvement.)
162                  o)  allow emulated serial ports to be connected to the outside          x)  SH4 BSC (Bus State Controller)
163                      world in a more generic way, or even to other emulated          x)  Instruction tracing should include symbols for branch targets,
164                      machines(!)              and so on, to make the output more human readable.
165            x)  SH3-specific devices: Pretty much everything!
166          GDB interface? (Maybe not necessary; the built-in debugger feels          x)  NetBSD/evbsh3, mmeye, hpcsh! Linux?
167          more useful.)          x)  Replace pc-relative loads with immediate load, if within the
168                same page. (Similar to the same optimization for ARM.)
169          GUI, interactive debugger?  GTK+?  (The GUI _must be optional_!)          x)  Floating point speed!
170                  o)  Breakpoints (complex expressions? combinations of register          x)  Floating point exception correctness.
171                          states, memory accesses and so on)          x)  NetBSD HEAD (as of April 2007) hangs during bootup, because it
172                  o)  Instruction trace              turns on/off interrupts in an unfortunately synchronized way
173                  o)  Disassembly of RAM (_NOT_ the same as instruction trace)              with dyntrans. This needs to be fixed.
174                  o)  Function call trace          x)  Exceptions for unaligned load/stores. OpenBSD/landisk uses
175                  o)  Inspection of CPU registers/state, coprocessor              this mechanism for its reboot code (machine_reset).
176                          registers/state, any device registers/state/contents          x)  Think carefully about how to implement SH5/SH64 (for evbsh5).
177                          o)  Framebuffers in windows / tabs.  
178                          o)  Contents of RAM  Landisk SH4:
179                  o)  "Start new emulation" should allow amount of          x)  When NetBSD/landisk 4.0 has been released, make sure it works
180                          RAM and nr of cpus to easily be specified.              in the emulator. (Update documentation, etc.)
181                          Multiple simultaneous machines should be possible.  
182                  o)  Disk images.  Dreamcast:
183            x)  G2 DMA
184          Regression tests:          x)  LAN adapter (dev_mb8696x.c).  NetBSD root-on-nfs.
185                  o)  see tests/          x)  PVR:  Lots of stuff. See dev_pvr.c.
186            x)  Better GDROM support
187          Save state of the whole emulated machine, to be able to load it back          x)  Modem
188                  in later?  (Memory, all device's states, all registers and          x)  PCI bridge/bus?
189                  so on.  Like taking a snapshot. (SimOS seems to do this,          x)  Maple bus:
190                  according to its website.))                  x)  Correct controller input
191                    x)  Mouse input
192          Better X-windows functionality:          x)  Software emulation of BIOS calls:
193                  o)  CLEAN UP the ugly event code                  x)  GD-ROM emulation: Use the GDROM device.
194                  o)  Mouse clicks can be "missed" in the current system; this is                  x)  Use the VGA font as a fake ROM font. (Better than
195                      not good. They should be put on a stack of some kind.                      nothing.)
196                  o)  More 2D and 3D framebuffer acceleration.          x)  Make as many as possible of the KOS examples run!
197                  o)  Non-resizable windows?  Or choose scaledown depending          x)  More homebrew demos/games.
198                          on size (and center the image, with a black border).          x)  SPU: Sound emulation (ARM cpu).
199                  o)  Different scaledown on different windows?          x)  VME processor emulation? "(Sanyo LC8670 "Potato")" according to
200                  o)  Switch scaledown during runtime? (Ala CTRL-ALT-plus/minus)              Wikipedia, LC86K87 according to Comstedt's page. See
201                  o)  Keyboard and mouse events:              http://www.maushammer.com/vmu.html for a good description of
202                          x)  Do this for more machines than just DECstation              the differences between LC86104C and the one used in the VME.
203                          x)  more X11 cursor keycodes  
204                          x)  Keys like CTRL, ALT, SHIFT do not get through  Alpha:
205                              by themselves (these are necessary for example          x)  OSF1 PALcode, Virtual memory support.
206                              to change the font of an xterm in X in the          x)  PALcode replacement! PAL1E etc opcodes...?
207                              emulator)          x)  Interrupt/exception/trap handling.
208                  o)  Generalize the framebuffer stuff by moving _ALL_ X11          x)  Floating point exception correctness.
209                          specific code to src/x11.c!          x)  More work on bootup memory and register contents.
210            x)  More Alpha machine types, so it could work with
211          Statistics:  (this could be interesting)              OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux too?
212                  o)  Save to file and show graphics. It should be possible to  
213                      run gxemul after a simulation to just show the graphics,  SPARC (both the ISA and the machines):
214                      or convert to a .ppm or .tga or similar.          o)  Implement Adress space identifiers; load/stores etc.
215                  o)  memory accesses (to measure cache efficiency and          o)  Exception/trap/interrupt handling.
216                          page coloring efficiency)          o)  Save/restore register windows etc! Both v9 and pre-v9!
217                  o)  nr of simultaneous ASIDs in use in the TLB, for MIPS          o)  Finish the subcc and addcc flag computation code.
218                  o)  percentage of time spent in different "states", such as          o)  Add more registers (floating point, control regs etc)
219                      running userland code, kernel code, or idling (for CPUs          o)  Disassemly of some more instructions?
220                      that have such an instruction, or whenever the PC is          o)  Are sll etc 32-bit sign-extending or zero-extending?
221                      inside a specific idle-function (address range)).          o)  Floating point exception correctness.
222                      Possible additional state (for example on R3000): caches          o)  SPARC v8, v7 etc?
223                      disabled.          o)  More machine modes and devices.
224                  o)  position of read/write on (SCSI) disks  
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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