On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > This is circular, as isa_level won't be initialized for a unknown CPU. > The *_r2 check suggested by Ralf has the same problem AFAICS, so it > looks like we have to stick with the original solution. Hmm, it looks like we have a misfeature in the probing code. I think it would be reasonable to perform full discovery of features for all MIPS Architecture processors, even if the Company or Processor ID as reported by the PRId register is not a recognised one. This is because for these processors we have all the necessary information about the privileged resource architecture implemented reported through the cp0 Config registers, including the type of the TLB and the topology of caches. With the revision 2 of the architecture, we also have the "ehb" and "jr.hb" instructions available to take care of cp0 hazards in a generic way. So in a sense, we should be able to handle these processors correctly without the knowledge of what has been printed on their cases. Ralf's proposal is essentially the same code, except expressed a little bit differently, so no surprise it suffers from the same problem. Maciej
