See MIPS RunSee MIPS Run, Second Edition, is not only a thorough update of the first edition, it is also a marriage of the best-known RISC architecture--MIPS--with the best-known open-source OS--Linux. The first part of the book begins with MIPS design principles and then describes the MIPS instruction set and programmers’ resources. It uses the MIPS32 standard as a baseline (the 1st edition used the R3000) from which to compare all other versions of the architecture and assumes that MIPS64 is the main option. The second part is a significant change from the first edition. It provides concrete examples of operating system low level code, by using Linux as the example operating system. It describes how Linux is built on the foundations the MIPS hardware provides and summarizes the Linux application environment, describing the libraries, kernel device-drivers and CPU-specific code. It then digs deep into application code and library support, protection and memory management, interrupts in the Linux kernel and multiprocessor Linux. Sweetman has revised his best-selling MIPS bible for MIPS programmers, embedded systems designers, developers and programmers, who need an in-depth understanding of the MIPS architecture and specific guidance for writing software for MIPS-based systems, which are increasingly Linux-based.
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... 64-Bit (and Other) Extensions 43 2.7.1 To 64 Bits 45 2.7.2 Who Needs 64 Bits? 45 2.7.3 Regarding 64 Bits and No Mode ... CPUs 83 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 4.4 Write-Back Caches in MIPS CPUs viii Contents.
... chips. As a result, the architecture had (and perhaps still has) the largest range of active manufacturers in the industry—working from ASIC cores (MIPS Technologies, Philips) through low-cost CPUs (IDT, AMD/ Alchemy) to the only 64-bit ...
... computer hardware in general with a discussion of caching. 1.1.2. The. Pipeline. and. Caching. We said earlier that efficient pipeline operation requires every stage to take the same amount of time. But a 2006 CPU can add two 64-bit numbers ...
... CPUs. Even in 1991, a small percentage of the PC business would have meant ... 64-bit MIPS implementation. The plan was to create a processor that would ... chips to 1.4 Great MIPS Chips of the Past and Present 13.
... bit computing power to meet the growing applications' hungry demands. Taken together, these requirements present a moving target for processor designers: Within a power budget that grows only gradually (with advances in battery ...
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Chapter 5 Exceptions Interrupts and Initialization | 105 |
Chapter 6 Lowlevel Memory Management and the TLB | 131 |
Chapter 7 FloatingPoint Support | 151 |
Chapter 8 Complete Guide to the MIPS Instruction Set | 183 |
Chapter 13 GNULinux from Eight Miles High | 363 |
Chapter 14 How Hardware and SoftwareWork Together | 371 |
Chapter 15 MIPS Specific Issues in the Linux Kernel | 399 |
Chapter 16 Linux Application Code PIC and Libraries | 409 |
Appendix A MIPS Multithreading | 415 |
Appendix B Other Optional Extensions to the MIPS Instruction Set | 425 |
MIPS Glossary | 431 |
References | 477 |
Chapter 9 Reading MIPS Assembly Language | 263 |
Chapter 10 Porting Software to the MIPS Architecture | 279 |
Chapter 11 MIPS Software Standards ABIs | 311 |
Chapter 12 Debugging MIPS DesignsDebug and Profiling Features | 339 |
Online Resources | 478 |
Index | 481 |
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