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Re: Userland emulator
On 03/26/2013 12:45 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
The VVAX (Virtual VAX) addes three instructions (WAIT, PROBEVMR and
PROBEVMW), adds one bit to the PSL (telling it's executing in virtual
mode), and changes the behaviour of a lot of stuff if you are in
virtual mode, as well as having a fake PSL for the virtual machine.
The wait instruction should maybe be added to the idle loop in NetBSD to
help emulators know when the machine
is idling. On real hardware it do not matter whether takes fault while
doing nothing anyway :-)
-- Ragge
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