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Re: illegal hardware instruction during MIPS-I ELF linux user emulation
From: |
Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: illegal hardware instruction during MIPS-I ELF linux user emulation |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:42:24 +0100 |
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 15:40, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> So currently there is no MIPS-I only CPU.
> Note that the code got written with MIPS32 in mind, and implementing
> MIPS-I requires a considerable amount of change in the codebase.
...but MIPS-I binaries should run on MIPS-II and newer CPUs, shouldn't
they?
> IMO it is likely the RFE (Return from Exception) instruction.
It seems unlikely that a linux userspace binary would be trying to
execute RFE...
thanks
-- PMM