282,7 → 282,9 |
development, we appreciated the possibility to turn logging of the devices to a specified |
verbosity. |
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We used it to test and develop amd64 and ia32 architectures in SMP mode and mips32 architecture in UP mode. |
We used it to test and develop amd64 and ia32 architectures in SMP mode and mips32 architecture in UP mode. Simics emulates the 4Kc processor on the MIPS architecture. |
Unfortunately, this processor does not have an exception Reserved Instruction, which |
makes it unusable in an environment with programs using thread local storage. |
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Regardless of its invaluable qualities, it has still contained bugs. One of the most |
serious was bug with ticket \#3351. {\OP} discovered that its BIOS rewrites kernel memory |