RE: [RFC PATCH v3 00/34] Hexagon patch series

[Taylor Simpson]

Richard,

Thank you so much for the feedback.  I really appreciate it.

I'll get to work addressing the issues.  Since some of the items will take 
longer than others, please advise whether it's preferred to send intermediate 
updates or wait until they are all addressed.

Taylor


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2020 9:27 PM
> To: Taylor Simpson <tsimpson@quicinc.com>; qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Cc: philmd@redhat.com; laurent@vivier.eu; riku.voipio@iki.fi;
> aleksandar.m.mail@gmail.com; ale@rev.ng
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/34] Hexagon patch series
>
> On 8/18/20 8:50 AM, Taylor Simpson wrote:
> > This series adds support for the Hexagon processor with Linux user support
> >
> > See patch 02/34 Hexagon README for detailed information.
> >
> > Once the series is applied, the Hexagon port will pass "make check-tcg".
> > The series also includes Hexagon-specific tests in tcg/tests/hexagon.
> >
> > We have a parallel effort to make the Hexagon Linux toolchain inside a
> docker
> > container publically available.
>
> Oh, excellent.
>
> > *** Future items under consideration ***
> > Use qemu softfloat
>
> This is a blocker.  It's definitely not hard.
>
> > Use qemu decodetree
>
> This would certainly clean up all of the string processing that I mentioned.
> It seems like it would be just as easy to convert into the decodetree format
> as
> what you're currently doing for dectree_generated.h.  Indeed, easier, since
> you
> only need the ones that are TERMINAL().  All of the other things labeled
> TABLE_LINK are handled by decodetree itself.
>
> Anyway, I've completed what review I planed to do against this version.
>
>
> r~