[RFC] Introduce MIPS disassembler library for barebox

[Sascha Hauer]

Hi Alexander,

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 06:53:08PM +0300, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
> This commit imports disassembler for mips from qemu/binutils.
> 
> Here is a sample disassembler output:
> 
> barebox:/ disasm 0xbfc00018+0x20
> bfc00018:       401a6000        mfc0    k0,$12
> bfc0001c:       241bfffe        li      k1,-2
> bfc00020:       035bd024        and     k0,k0,k1
> bfc00024:       409a6000        mtc0    k0,$12
> bfc00028:       3c09b400        lui     t1,0xb400
> bfc0002c:       3c08df00        lui     t0,0xdf00
> bfc00030:       ad280068        sw      t0,104(t1)
> bfc00034:       3c09bbe0        lui     t1,0xbbe0
> 
> TODOs:
> 
>   * -a option (select cpu architecture) does not work properly;
>   * -s option (select binary file for disassembly) does not work properly .
> 
> This commit demonstrate simple way for importing disassembler from qemu/binutils:
> disassemblers for other architectures (e.g. ARM) can be easely imported.

This is nice and somehow cool to be able to just disassemble some code
under barebox. However, it's quite a bunch of code imported from another
project and we'll need even more code for other architectures. This code
needs maintenance to stay useful, so I am not very fond of merging it.
What is your usecase for this? Normally I would transfer the area I'd
like to disassemble via tftp or whatever to a host and disassemble it
there, but that it something that I need very seldomly.

Sascha

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