---
- branch: MAIN
  date: Mon Nov 24 14:47:27 UTC 2014
  files:
  - new: '1.11'
    old: '1.10'
    path: pkgsrc/emulators/vmips/Makefile
    pathrev: pkgsrc/emulators/vmips/Makefile@1.11
    type: modified
  - new: '1.6'
    old: '1.5'
    path: pkgsrc/emulators/vmips/distinfo
    pathrev: pkgsrc/emulators/vmips/distinfo@1.6
    type: modified
  - new: '0'
    old: '1.1'
    path: pkgsrc/emulators/vmips/patches/patch-cpu.cc
    pathrev: pkgsrc/emulators/vmips/patches/patch-cpu.cc@0
    type: deleted
  - new: '0'
    old: '1.2'
    path: pkgsrc/emulators/vmips/patches/patch-options.cc
    pathrev: pkgsrc/emulators/vmips/patches/patch-options.cc@0
    type: deleted
  - new: '0'
    old: '1.2'
    path: pkgsrc/emulators/vmips/patches/patch-vmipstool.cc
    pathrev: pkgsrc/emulators/vmips/patches/patch-vmipstool.cc@0
    type: deleted
  id: 20141124T144727Z.7577d5e90f3e08e2f6fd991322e245d7b3f09b45
  log: |
    Update 1.4.1 to 1.5
    -------------------
       User-visible changes in version 1.5 (since version 1.4.1):

       * New features/improvements:

       * VMIPS now includes a basic direct-mapped cache simulation. The
         cache isolation and cache swap bits in the CP0 Status register are
         now honored.

       * The boot monitor distributed with VMIPS now sets up a dummy
         `argv[0]' value for the loaded program. Also, it halts by entering
         an infinite loop rather than attempting to execute a `break'
         instruction when it encounters an unexpected exception.

       * The setup assembly routine distributed with VMIPS has been made
         more TLB-friendly. Identity virtual-to-physical mappings for the
         first few pages of physical RAM are installed in the TLB at program
         start time.

       * When `-o excmsg' is on, TLB miss addresses will be printed to
         stderr.

       * When `-o ttydev=stdout' is specified, simulated program output
         will be sent to VMIPS's standard output, even if it is not a tty.

       * The interactor can now disassemble memory. Also, stepping in the
         interactor now prints the PC after each step.

       * VMIPS now supports more of the GDB remote serial protocol, in
         support of the GDB `info threads' and `detach' commands. The debug
         protocol TCP port is now configurable via the `-o debugport'
         option. Also, if something halts the program while the debugger
         interface is active, VMIPS will tell GDB that the program exited.

       * Bug fixes:

       * A bug was fixed in the debugger interface where disconnecting from
         the debugger socket could cause vmips to enter an infinite loop.

       * The interactor will refuse to dump raw memory words at
         non-word-aligned addresses.

       * The CP0 Cause register IP field is now recomputed whenever the
         register is read, rather than only when exceptions happen. This
         makes polling loops with interrupts disabled work correctly.

       * A bug was fixed in the DECstation-compatible clock device which was
         preventing some of its registers from being zeroed properly.

       * Some endianness bugs were fixed in the generic memory-mapped device
         code and in the DECstation-compatible serial device.
  module: pkgsrc
  subject: 'CVS commit: pkgsrc/emulators/vmips'
  unixtime: '1416840447'
  user: mef