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RE: [PATCH v2] Revert "target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA"
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Petar Jovanovic |
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RE: [PATCH v2] Revert "target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA" |
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Wed, 21 Apr 2021 01:24:28 +0200 |
On 4/20/21 6:06 PM, Aleksandar Rikalo wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
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>> The plan is to drop the nanoMIPS disassembler because it is broken
>> since more than 2 years and nobody ever cared to fix it after
>> Stefan's attempt in Nov 2018:
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg576504.html
>> So it is certainly unused. Unused unmaintained code has a cost and
>> negative impact to the generic project development.
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> How do you conclude it is broken ? It seems to work well.
> Aleksandar Markovic did few fixes during 2019.
> One community user tried it, reported a bug which got never fixed. This
means the code is not used by the mainstream community, but is a burden for
maintenance.
Hi Philippe,
I am not sure I understand this. What bug about nanomips disassembler was
reported?
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> NanoMIPS needs disassembler, like other architectures...
> I totally agreed, but we need a working disassembler;
We have a working disassembler in. If there is a bug that needs to be
resolved, please bring it to our attention.
Thanks.
Regards,
Petar