The value of the MVFR1 (Media and VFP Feature Register 1) register for
the Cortex-A8 appears to be incorrect (according to the TRM, DDI0344K),
with the "full denormal arithmetic" and "propagation of NaN" fields
holding both 0 instead of both 1.
I had a go tracing the history of the use of this value, and it seems
it's always just been wrong in QEMU: maybe it was derived from early
documentation, or guessed based on the use of a "VFP Lite" implementation
in the Cortex-A8.
Depending on the startup/early-boot code in use, this can manifest as
failure to perform denormal arithmetic properly: in our case, selecting
a Cortex-A8 CPU when using QEMU as an instruction-set simulator for
bare-metal GCC testing caused tests using denormal arithmetic to
fail. Problems might be masked (or not occur) when using a full OS kernel
with suitable trap handlers (I'm not sure).
Signed-off-by: Julian Brown <julian@codesourcery.com>
Message-id: 1481130858-31767-1-git-send-email-julian@codesourcery.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
We've currently got 18 architectures in QEMU, and thus 18 target-xxx
folders in the root folder of the QEMU source tree. More architectures
(e.g. RISC-V, AVR) are likely to be included soon, too, so the main
folder of the QEMU sources slowly gets quite overcrowded with the
target-xxx folders.
To disburden the main folder a little bit, let's move the target-xxx
folders into a dedicated target/ folder, so that target-xxx/ simply
becomes target/xxx/ instead.
Acked-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> [m68k part]
Acked-by: Bastian Koppelmann <kbastian@mail.uni-paderborn.de> [tricore part]
Acked-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc> [lm32 part]
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> [s390x part]
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> [s390x part]
Acked-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> [i386 part]
Acked-by: Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@gmail.com> [sparc part]
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> [alpha part]
Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> [xtensa part]
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> [ppc part]
Acked-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com> [crisµblaze part]
Acked-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> [unicore32 part]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
