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- From: pcwood@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Paul Wood)
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- Subject: Re: Recommended reading sources for R3000 implementers ??
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:10:22 GMT
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- Jim Doyle (jdoyle@phy.umassd.edu) wrote:
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- : Howdy! I was wondering if anyone could provide me with the names
- : of any good references (books, articles, publications in general) on
- : the MIPS R3000/R4000 architecture and systems implementation.
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- : I will be embarking on a job shortly to port Mach 3.0 to
- : first a uni-processor R3000 box and then later, a eight-processor SMP
- : R3000 box (SillyG PowerSeries). Thus, I need to bone up not only on the
- : assembler, but also the very critical issues of
- : bus-locking/arbitration, cache control/coherency and other
- : synchronization related things.
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- : Thanks!
-
- : ..... J.D. (doyle@cs.umass.edu)
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- THere is a book from Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-590472-2 called
- MIPS RISC ARCHITECTURE by Gerry Kane and Joe Heinrich
- It covers R2000, R3000, R4000, and R6000
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- Hope this helps.
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