Capstone for MIPS (was: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Remove some of the old libopcode based disassemblers)

[Thomas Huth]

On 09/05/2022 15.42, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 9/5/22 15:18, Thomas Huth wrote:
[...]
> > By the way, what about MIPS? Could MIPS be switched to Capstone, too, so 
> > that we could finally remove disas/mips.c ? (We're not using capstone 
> > there yet, and MIPS has so many flavours, big and little endian, 32- and 
> > 64-bit ... so that I'm unsure whether there was a reason for not using 
> > Capstone there, or whether it just hasn't been tried out yet?)
>
> Last I remember is Richard saying "the capstone backend for mips is not
> in terribly good shape":
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/0c7827df-c9d4-8dad-a38c-4881ce7dd22b@linaro.org/ 

That was in 2017, in the Capstone 3.x days ... maybe the situation has 
improved nowadays?

 Thomas