On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 12:30:07PM +0100, Paul Burton wrote: > I had originally left this patch at the point I started considering > implementing emulation for the whole ISA in the kernel, figuring I was > going insane & should probably do something else for a while. Perhaps I > shouldn't worry so much ;) Full emulation is a bit problematic in particular for some of the older CPUs which have random odd ISA extensions. Think like a MIPS I plus a sprinkling of MIPS II and a bucket of oddness or similar. Getting that right would be tedious. Ralf