Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] target-mips: add microMIPS ASE support, v3

[Nathan Froyd]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:10:25PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 01:29:55PM -0700, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> > This patch series adds support for the microMIPS ASE.  microMIPS is a
> > new ASE similar to MIPS16, but re-encodes the entire instruction set
> > into 16-bit and 32-bit instructions--in contrast to MIPS16, which
> > re-encodes only integer instructions.  The mechanisms for going in and
> > out of microMIPS mode are identical to those for MIPS16; a given chip
> > cannot support both ASEs simultaneously.
> 
> I have applied all patches except the 5th one, see my comments about
> it.

Thanks for applying these.  I agree with you about the 5th one and will
submit a M14K patch in the next week.

> Finally, I have made some comments about the 4th patch, that may be a
> basis for future improvements.

Indeed.  I will work on that one.

-Nathan