[Oberon] QEMU target implementation for Oberon RISC architecture

[Jörg]

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Sorry, I made a typo. The correct identification code should look like this:

 

        cpu := SYSTEM.H(2019) MOD 100H;

        IF cpu = 53H THEN       (* RISC5: with interrupts + floating-point, 31.8.2018 *)

        ELSIF cpu = 54H THEN (* RISC5a: no interrupts, no floating-point, 1.9.2018*)

        ELSIF cpu = 0A0H THEN (* RISC0, 26.12.2013 *)

        END ;

 

First of all, the CPU version identification is an undocumented feature. So only NW knows, if it will be supported in the future.

Perhaps we as Oberon community can agree on how emulators shall identify itself. I see four thinkable ways
Return one of the values above, as the real FPGA HW would do. Be totally transparent to the Oberon code.
Return another value, so the Oberon code might find out that it’s running on an emulator if he wants to do so
Use a few of the 20 unused bits in the instruction, currently set to 0. This has the benefit that the CPU version is still one of the defined ones, and we can detect the CPU feature set foreseen by NW. We still have the possibility to detect on what emulator this CPU is implemented.
Define a new (still unused) instruction to just return the emulator version.
 

My recommendation would be: c). Just as an idea: use the second lowest byte to identify the emulator.

As example: SYSTEM.H(2019) DIV 100H MOD 100H would identify the emulator.

 

br

Jörg

 

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