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[Brian R. Gaeke]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 09:44:41PM -0700, vmips-bounces at dgate.ORG wrote:
> From: Zhou Ya Jin <ncs at mail.ustc.edu.cn>
> To: vmips at dgate.org
> Subject: About VMIPS
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:44:15 +0800
> 
>    Hi everyone:
>        I am very glad finding such a good mips simulator. You know, there are
>    few free mips simulators available.But I also have few questions of VMIPS.
>        1. As far as I know, VMIPS just simulate a mips cpu, not a full
>    system(that is including RAM,peripheral equipment etc). Am I right?

VMIPS also simulates the memory system (minus caches) and several
peripherals, including two different kinds of serial chip and a few
devices borrowed from the DECstation 5000/200.   See chapter 10 of
the manual ("Devices") for information about the peripherals VMIPS
supports.

I do not currently have any plans to extend VMIPS beyond the R3000,
but patches are always welcome.

>        3. Are there any internal document of VMIPS? I did not find. Can
>    anyone do me a favor to send it to me if you have one. Thanks everyone.

The VMIPS manual does have some information on the internals of the simulator,
in chapter 11 ("Extending"). 

A recent version of the manual is available at

	http://vmips.sourceforge.net/vmips/doc/vmips.html

>    ps: Thanks, brg, for your excellent work on VMIPS :)

You're welcome!

-Brian

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