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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... EJTAG” On-chip Debug Unit 341 12.1.1 EJTAG History 343 12.1.2 How the Probe Controls the CPU 343 12.1.3 Debug Communications through JTAG 344 12.1.4 Debug Mode 344 12.1.5 Single-Stepping 346 12.1.6 The dseg Memory Decode Region 346 12.1 ...
... EJTAG: An optional system to improve the debugging facilities, described in section 12.1. Paired single: An extension to the floating-point unit that provides SIMD operations, each of which works simultaneously on two single-precision ...
... EJTAG debug unit, described in section 12.1.7. DEPC 24.0 DESAVE 31.0 WatchLo 18.0 Data watchpoint facility, which can cause an exception when the CPU attempts to load or store at this address—potentially useful for debugging. See ...
... EJTAG debug unit—see section 12.1, and in particular the notes on the Debug register. 31 – Now unused, but historical use like bit 14, above. 3.3.4. Bad. Virtual. Address. (BadVAddr). Register. This register holds the address whose use led ...
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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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