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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-...
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Thiemo Seufer |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-... |
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Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:36:11 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) |
Paul Brook wrote:
> > > I think what you mean is that they work the way that ppc64 is defined, to
> > > remain compatible with ppc32. IMHO this is entirely irrelevant as we're
> > > emulating a ppc32. You could replace the high bits with garbage and
> > > nothing would ever be able to tell the difference.
> >
> > PowerPC is a 64 bits architecture. PowerPC 32 on 32 bits host is
> > optimized not to compute the 32 highest bits, the same way it's allowed
> > to cut down the GPR when implementing a CPU that would not support the
> > 64 bits mode (but this is a tolerance, this is not the architecture is
> > defined).
>
> No. PowerPC is defined as a 64-bit archirecure. However there is a subset of
> this architecture (aka ppc32) that is a complete 32-bit architecture in its
> own right. By your own admission, we can get away with not calculating the
> high 32 bit of the register. If follows that the high bits are completely
> meaningless.
This btw. also means that the ppc32 emulation on 32-bit hosts is needlessly
inefficient if the high bits are carried around.
> The qemu ppc32 emulation is implemented in such a way that on 64-bit hosts it
> looks a lot like a ppc64 implementation. However this need not, and should
> not be exposed to the user.
>
> > OK. Those are real bugs to be fixed. I'll take a look.... But I'll try
> > not to break the GPR dump. In fact, GPR should always dumped as 64 bits,
> > even when runnig on 32 bits hosts. This would be more consistent with
> > the specification.
>
> I disagree. qemu is implementing ppc32. Showing more than 32 bits of register
> is completely bogus. Any differences between a 32-bit host and a 64-bit host
> are a qemu bug. If you display 64 bits, then those 64 bits had better be the
> same when run on 32-bit hosts.
I strongly agree with Paul.
Thiemo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Jocelyn Mayer, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Paul Brook, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Jocelyn Mayer, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Jocelyn Mayer, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Paul Brook, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Jocelyn Mayer, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Jocelyn Mayer, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Paul Brook, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., J. Mayer, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Paul Brook, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-...,
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., J. Mayer, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Thiemo Seufer, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Paul Brook, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Julian Seward, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., J. Mayer, 2007/11/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., J. Mayer, 2007/11/23
[Qemu-devel] qemu hw/ppc_oldworld.c target-ppc/cpu.h target-..., Jocelyn Mayer, 2007/11/23