Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] target-tile: Firstly add to qemu with minimized features

[Chris Metcalf]

On 2/16/2015 6:46 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 17 February 2015 at 08:08, Chen Gang S <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 2/16/15 23:24, Max Filippov wrote:
> > > Disassembler is not a crucial part of QEMU target.
> > For me, it is necessary. We need disassemble target binary instructions
> > (recognize them), then translate them into tcg instructions which are
> > grouped by Translate Block.
> No, Max is correct. What QEMU calls the "disassembler" is just
> used for debug logging: it is code that goes from target binary
> instructions to printed display of assembly language instructions.
> This is completely separate code from the code in target-*/translate.c
> which decodes target binary instructions and emits TCG opcodes.
> That code is generally called the translator or the decoder, and
> it is always written from scratch specifically for QEMU. Don't
> try to reuse code from binutils there.

The kernel disassembly that Chen Gang is looking at is basically just an
instruction recognizer; it doesn't even include text strings for opcodes,
for example.  But my guess is that it is exactly the right starting building
block for decoding target binary instructions.

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