PSIM - Emulator of the PowerPC Architecture

• Overview
• Installing PSIM
  • Configuring and compiling the software
  • Upgrading to the current version
  • Updates to GDB
  • Configuration options
  • Typical configuration options
• Using PSIM
  • Using PSIM from the command line
    • A device specification
      • Path
      • Device name
      • Properties
      • Interrupts
  • Using PSIM from within GDB
    • Using a device tree specification
    • Using profile variables ($insns $stalls $cycles)
  • Profiling
  • Specifying devices
• The PSIM internals
• igen: The kernel
  • Kernel variations
    • Basic
    • Multi-processor
    • Cache
    • Jump (with cache)
    • Hybrids
  • Exceptions
    • Restart
    • Abort
  • Generating a kernel - igen
• igen: decoding instructions
  • Instruction unpacking
  • Instruction decode table
• Processor: Modeling the ISA specifics
• Events: Providing a time line
• Tracing: Facilitating detailed debugging
• Core: a device tree
  • Overview
    • A tree model
    • Address Map
    • Interrupt network
    • Ihandles, Phandles and Device Instances
    • Creation and Initialization
      • Creation
      • Initialization
  • Core
  • Introduction
    • Core
      • Core map management
      • Bugs
    • Device
    • Access maps
  • Device
  • Introduction
  • Relationships
  • Properties
  • Instances
  • Interrupts
  • Hardware operations
  • Utilities
    • IOCTL
    • Error reporting
  • External representation
  • Event queue
• Monitoring:
• Modeling: Implementation specific ISA modeling
• Environment Specifics
  • User environment and virtual memory
  • Operating environment and firmware calls
• Included Devices
  • com -- '550 compatible serial device
  • core -- root of the device tree
  • cpu -- Interface to a Processor
  • cdrom -- read-only removable mass storage device
  • disk -- mass storage device
  • floppy -- removable mass storage device
  • eeprom -- JEDEC? compatible electricaly erasable programable device
  • glue -- glue to interconnect and test interrupts
  • htab -- pseudo-device describing a PowerPC hash table
  • pte -- pseudo-device describing a htab entry
  • ide -- Integrated Disk Electronics
  • file -- load a file into memory
  • data -- initialize a memory location with specified data
  • load-binary -- load binary segments into memory
  • map-binary -- map the binary into the users address space
  • stack -- create an initial stack frame in memory
  • iobus -- simple bus for attaching devices
  • memory -- description of system memory
  • nvram -- non-volatile memory with clock
  • opic -- Open Programmable Interrupt Controller (OpenPIC)
  • Processor init register
  • pal -- glue logic device containing assorted junk
  • phb -- PCI Host Bridge
  • register -- dummy device to initialize processor registers
  • trace -- the properties of this dummy device specify trace options
  • vm -- virtual memory device for user simulation modes
• Included Packages
  • disk-label -- all knowing disk I/O package
• Emulated Environments
  • BUG -- Motorola's embeded firmware BUG interface
  • OpenFirmware -- IEEE Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware.
  • NetBSD -- Emulation of user programs for NetBSD/PPC
  • Solaris -- Emulation of user programs for Solaris/PPC
  • Linux -- Emulation of user programs for Linux/PPC
• Configuration Options
  • --enable-sim-alignment=align
  • --enable-sim-assert
  • --enable-sim-bitsize=n
  • --enable-sim-bswap
  • --enable-sim-cflags=<opts>
  • --enable-sim-config=<file>
  • --enable-sim-default-model=which
  • --enable-sim-duplicate
  • --enable-sim-endian=endian
  • --enable-sim-env=env
  • --enable-sim-filter=rule
  • --enable-sim-float
  • --enable-sim-hardware=<list>
  • --enable-sim-hostbitsize=32|64
  • --enable-sim-hostendain=end
  • --enable-sim-icache=icache-options
  • --enable-sim-inline[=module]
  • --enable-sim-jump
  • --enable-sim-line-nr
  • --enable-sim-model=which
  • --enable-sim-model-issue
  • --enable-sim-monitor=mon
  • --enable-sim-opcode=which
  • --enable-sim-packages=<list>
  • --enable-sim-warnings=<flags>
  • --enable-sim-reserved-bits
  • --enable-sim-smp=n
  • --enable-sim-stdcall=<type>
  • --enable-sim-warnings=<flags>
  • --enable-sim-switch
  • --enable-sim-timebase
  • --enable-sim-trace
  • --enable-sim-warnings=<flags>
  • --enable-sim-xor-endian=n
• Software development environments
  • Introduction
  • BUG/OEA - embeded development without the embeded system.
    • Background
    • Preparation
    • Method
  • BSD/UEA - User mode UNIX development without a kernel
    • Background
    • Preparation
    • Method
  • BSD/OEA - The NetBSD kernel
• Performance Issues

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