Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] New SPARC machine: Leon3

[Blue Swirl]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Fabien Chouteau <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm glad to submit my first patches to the Qemu-devel list.
>
> This patch set introduces a new SPARC V8 machine: Leon3. It's an open-source
> VHDL System-On-Chip, well known in space industry (more information on
> http://www.gaisler.com).
>
> Leon3 is made of multiple components available in the GrLib VHDL library.
> Three devices are implemented: uart, timers and IRQ manager.
> You can find code for these peripherals in the grlib_* files.
>
> Modifications have been done to the SPARC cpu emulation code to handle
> Leon3's specific behavior:
>  - IRQ management
>  - Cache control
>  - Asr17 (implementation-dependent Ancillary State Registers)
>  - Shutdown
>
> Please feel free to comment.

One general comment: each device file should provide pointers to chipset docs.