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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Dominic Sweetman. Chapter 1 Contents Foreword v Preface xv Style and Limits xviii Conventions xviii Acknowledgments xix RISCs and MIPS Architectures 1 1.1 Pipelines 2 1.1.1 What Makes a Pipeline Inefficient? 3 1.1.2 The Pipeline and ...
... Conventions for MIPSABIs 319 11.2.1 The Stack, Subroutine Linkage, and Parameter Passing 320 11.2.2 Stack Argument Structure in o32 320 11.2.3 Using Registers to Pass Arguments 321 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 11.2.4 Examples from the C ...
... conventions (register use, argument passing, etc.) necessary to produce interworking software with different toolkits. Chapter 12 introduces the debug and profiling features standardized for MIPS CPUs. Then we're on to seeing how MIPS ...
... Conventions. A quick note on the typographical conventions used in this book: Type in this font (Minion) is running text. Type in this font (Futura) is a sidebar. Type in this font (Courier bold) is used for assembly code and MIPS ...
... conventions, but they have no relationship to the hardware. A stack pop wouldn't fit the pipeline, because it would ... convention $31 becomes the return address register. This is less sophisticated than storing the return address on a ...
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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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