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Re: PSIM Support for MPC860
- To: "Tom Taylor" <ttaylor at ateng dot com>
- Subject: Re: PSIM Support for MPC860
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- Date: 08 Oct 2001 15:33:53 -0400
- Cc: <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <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