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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: "Tom Taylor" <ttaylor@ateng.com>
Cc: <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: PSIM Support for MPC860
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 12:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <o5adz22afy.fsf@touchme.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <014301c1501f$a3a3bdf0$7c01a8c0@ateng.com>

"Tom Taylor" <ttaylor@ateng.com> writes:

: I'm attempting to use the GDB 5.0 PSIM simulator to analyze firmware
: written for the MPC860T in the OEA mode.  [...]

You might have a big job ahead of you.

: I have noticed that there is special code for handling problematic
: MPC860 forward branches [...]  Is this because only application code
: was being simulated [...]

Yes.

: If I undertake the task of adding MPC860 support to PSIM, is there any
: interest in the GDB community for simulating this processor, 

Sure.

: and is there any available code that could be used to reduce the
: time and effort this task will require?

I don't know of any.  Building satisfactory simulations of complex
processors tends to be a big job.  (Red Hat does this sort of thing on
contract basis for example.)


- FChE


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-08 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-08 10:35 Tom Taylor
2001-10-08 12:34 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2001-10-08 13:53   ` Tom Taylor
2001-10-08 16:42     ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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