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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... Address Space 47 2.8.1 Addressing in Simple Systems 49 2.8.2 Kernel versus User Privilege Level 49 2.8.3 The Full Picture: The 64-Bit View of the Memory Map 50 2.9 Pipeline Visibility 50 Coprocessor 0: MIPS Processor Control 53 3.1 CPU ...
... address (the cache tag) and when the CPU wants data the cache gets searched and, if the requisite data is available ... space is needed for more data arriving from memory. Even a simple cache will provide the data the CPU wants more than ...
... address space for the very largest workstation and server applications. Pundits seem to agree that programs grow bigger exponentially, doubling every 18 months or so. So long as this goes on, demand for address space is expanding at ...
... address space and the use of general-purpose registers as pointers—means that 64-bit addressing and 64-bit registers go together. Even where the long addresses are irrelevant, the increased bandwidth of the wide registers and ALU may be ...
... Address. Space. The way MIPS processors use and handle addresses is subtly different from that of traditional CISC CPUs, and we know that it causes confusion. Read the first part of this section ... Address Space 47 2.8 Basic Address Space.
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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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