Hi,
> > Note that most MIPS documents use word 'load' and 'store' for instruction,
> > and 'read' and 'write' for bus transaction. You have to distinguish them.
>
> Don't I?
I understood that (singular) you distinguish them.
I thought someone misunderstood in this thread.
> > (Here I'm ignoring I/O access to make the point clear.)
>
> How do you define an I/O access for MIPS?
uncached access. Off cource there can be exception.
> > The data on a write bus transaction may be a data modified by a store
> > instruction which was issued some years ago :-) What the OS can do?
>
> Report it and panic.
I agree with you.
> The problem with bus errors on MIPS is that one
> can't distinguish between errors on reads and writes.
But I did not understand that there is MIPS CPU which cause Bus Error Exception
as a result of a bus error for a write bus transaction or a read bus
transaction
which caused by cache miss for a store instruction. It's messy...
Hiroo
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