Mostly recently we've been aiming for QEMU emulation code in
target/arm to use ID register fields to determine whether a
feature is present or not (the isar_feature_* functions) rather
than the old style of defining ARM_FEATURE_* flags. This seems to
be working out well for A-profile. However, for v8.1M there are
a small handful of minor behaviour differences which don't have an
associated ID register field, but which are instead in the spec
and pseudocode just called out as "if this is a v8.1M CPU".
(The major v8.1M new features do have ID register fields.)
I can think of two ways to handle this:
(1) define an ARM_FEATURE_V81M flag
(2) define an isar_feature_aa32_v81m() function which under the
hood is actually testing for a specific feature which happens
to be known to be always present in v8.1M, like low-overhead-branches
(ie ID_ISAR0.CmpBranch >=3)
Any preferences ?
thanks
-- PMM
