Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6] target-mips: do not raise exceptions when accessing invalid memory

[Andreas Färber]

Am 27.07.2013 21:37, schrieb Stefan Weil:
> Am 27.07.2013 19:43, schrieb Peter Maydell:
>> On 27 July 2013 17:18, Hervé Poussineau <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Another solution would be to add a big dummy memory regions on all MIPS 
>>> boards
>>> to catch memory accesses and not raise an exception. However, this means 
>>> that
>>> each MIPS board will have its own unassigned memory handler, different from 
>>> the
>>> global QEMU one.
>> Better would be to at least provide fake RAZ/WI implementations of
>> devices for the boards, rather than making the dummy region cover
>> the whole of the address space. Not 1.6 material, though.
> 
> I prefer keeping the correct code for target-mips/op_helper.c
> and adding either the big dummy memory regions or fake
> device implementations (both with TODO comments) for 1.6.

The problem I see with that is, so far no one has stepped up with a list
of what memory ranges / devices we are talking about.

The simplest for 1.6 might be to re-add an #ifndef TARGET_MIPS around
the refactored call to restore old behavior.

Andreas

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