On 25/01/2024 13.47, Ilya Leoshkevich wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 18:28 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 15/01/2024 21.21, Ilya Leoshkevich wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Ido reported that we are missing the CVDG emulation (which is very
>>> similar to the existing CVD emulation). This series adds it along
>>> with a test.
>>
>> Just FYI, your patch made me curious which other instructions we
>> still might
>> be missing from chapter 7 in the Principles of Operation... with some
>> shell
>> scripting and manual fiddling, I ended up with this list:
>>
>> 0C BRANCH AND SAVE AND SET MODE BASSM
>> 0B BRANCH AND SET MODE BSM
>> B21A COMPARE AND FORM CODEWORD CFC
>> B257 COMPARE UNTIL SUBSTRING EQUAL CUSE
>> B263 COMPRESSION CALL CMPSC
>> 4F CONVERT TO BINARY (32) CVB
>> E306 CONVERT TO BINARY (32) CVBY
>> E30E CONVERT TO BINARY (64) CVBG
>> B24D COPY ACCESS CPYA
>> EF LOAD MULTIPLE DISJOINT LMD
>> EE PERFORM LOCKED OPERATION PLO
>> B9BF TRANSLATE AND TEST EXTENDED TRTE
>> B9BD TRANSLATE AND TEST REVERSE EXTENDED TRTRE
>> 0102 UPDATE TREE UPT
>>
>> There are some additional ones from the "Guarded-Storage Facility"
>> and the
>> "Transactional-Execution Facility", but these are optional AFAIK.
>>
>> Some of these (like UPT) really look like sins from the CISC past, I
>> guess
>> we'll never need them for running Linux guests :-)
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>
> Thanks, I'll append this to my TODO list. At least for CVB* there seems
> to exist an unfinished patch on the list [1].
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20180821025104.19604-8-pavel.zbitskiy@gmail.com/
Oh, interesting, there was even a v4 that fixed the review feedback:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20180822144039.5796-4-pavel.zbitskiy@gmail.com/
But it seems like this had fallen through the cracks :-(
Maybe we can re-activate it now...
Thomas