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@RenodeBot RenodeBot released this 16 Feb 17:42
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v1.16.1
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For installation instructions, see the README.

Added and improved architecture support:

  • ARM:

    • added initial support for ARM Helium M-Profile Vector Extension (MVE) along with exposing the registers to GDB
    • added support for FPv5 in ARMv8-M along with exposing registers to GDB
    • added support for Cortex-M55
    • added support for the RNDR system register, which can be enabled on cores that don't support it in hardware using cpu EnableRNDR true
      • this may be helpful for Linux RNG initialization, for example
    • added initial Cortex-R52 system register support for Trace32 and GDB
    • extended Cortex-R52 system register support with 64-bit CP14/15 registers
    • added basic support for IMP_xTCMREGIONR registers
    • added support for accessing GIC and Timer system registers from GDB
    • added support for enabling and disabling TCM at given EL
    • enabled use of secure memory access in PC and SP initialization for Cortex-M
    • for ARMv8.2 platforms, GIC no longer ignores Aff0
      • the full cpuId needs to be specified as a local interrupt target (e.g. gic#1@26 needs to be changed to gic#0x100@26), for CPU with cpuId: 0x100.
    • improved Cortex-R52 system register GDB tests
    • fixed ARMv8-M Thumb2 data processing instructions
    • fixed Cortex-M bus isolation tests
    • fixed Stack Pointer bits [1-0] handling on Cortex-M
    • fixed Cortex-R52 execution tracing disassembly
    • fixed setting and getting the FPSCR Cortex-M register
    • fixed SRS instruction
    • fixed load/store exclusive correctness issues
    • fixed ARM vcvtp decoding
    • fixed wrong exception being raised when FPU is disabled on Cortex-M
    • fixed VCVTB/VCVTT issues on 32-bit ARM

  • RISC-V:

    • added a stub of Sscofpmf extension
    • added tracing of Zaamo operand contents
    • added clmul, clmulh and clmulr RISC-V instructions
    • fixed the behavior of several instructions from the Zba and Zbb RISC-V extensions
    • fixed half precision floating point instructions so that they respect rounding mode in frm and reflect set exception flags in fflags
    • fixed lr/sc correctness issues
    • added missing RISC-V rv32b and rv64b extension opcodes to opcodesFilesMap
    • added support for external RISC-V PMP implementations
    • added a mechanism for ensuring that memory access outside of the physical address space on RISC-V are handled
    • added a stub of RV32-only mstatush CSR
    • added a warning when software attempts to set unsupported data access endianess
    • increased RISC-V physical address space size from 50 to 56 bits
    • added the ability to inspect fflags, frm and fcsr unprivileged floating point CSRs from GDB and the Monitor
    • added support for core internal interrupts
    • added a PreStackAccessHook functionality
    • fixed RISC-V mtvec/stvec CSR values when accessing them through the Monitor
    • fixed various vector instructions
    • fixed RISC-V PMP not being properly set after machine reset
    • fixed overly aggressive cached translation block matching

  • x86/x86-64:

    • added initial x86-64 KVM-based CPU support with enabled GDB debugging

  • Xtensa:

    • added experimental assembler and disassembler for Xtensa

Added and improved platform descriptions:

  • Egis ET171

  • FocalTech FT9001

  • ZynqMP

  • NXP S32K388

  • NXP MIMXRT700-EVK

  • X86_64KVM CPU

  • Tock VeeR EL2 Sim platform

  • Nuvoton NPCX9 OTPI ROM function mocks

  • Added alternative timer function handling in:

    • STM32F0
    • STM32F4
    • STM32F103
    • STM32F746
    • STM32G0
    • STM32H743
    • STM32L151
    • STM32L552
    • STM32WBA52

  • Added individual interrupt signals in:

    • STM32F0
    • STM32F103
    • STM32F4
    • STM32F746
    • STM32G0
    • STM32L552
    • STM32WBA52

Added demos and tests:

  • EFR32xG24 running railtest
  • Nucleo H753ZI running the Zephyr net/ptp sample
  • i386_64-bios test and sample
  • i386_64-linux test and sample
  • Egis ET171 Zephyr tests and script
  • RenesasRZ/G2L OpenAMP demo
  • Nucleo H753ZI running the Hubris kernel
  • X86_64 KVM Linux on VirtIO test and sample
  • FocalTech FT9001 running Zephyr and ChromeOS EC Fingerprint software
  • demo and tests for MIMXRT700-EVK running hello_world, shell_module, philosophers and I2S Zephyr samples
  • reverse execution demo
  • basic Cortex-R52 execution tracer disassembly test
  • ARM FPv5 unit tests
  • sync_pc test for Cortex-A53
  • round-trip assembly/disassembly test for Cortex-R52
  • test checking for SRS/RFE ARM guest Renode crashes
  • opcodes counting test for the RISC-V B extension
  • Ethernet test on ZynqMP with SMMUv3
  • STM32H7 Flash erase and program test
  • VeeR EL2 PIC tests
  • sysbus overridePeripheralAccesses tags tests
  • sysbus silent tags tests
  • test suite for the auto-save functionality
  • GuestCacheAnalyzer testsuite
  • test infrastructure for riscv-tests unit tests

Added features:

  • Renode server mode for WebSocket communication, along with a TypeScript API library

  • support for multiple *.cs files provided for ad-hoc compilation

  • support for unsafe code during ad-hoc compilation

  • optional TCG ops backtrace in debug mode on Linux

  • optional overridePeripheralAccesses parameter for sysbus tags

  • optional silent parameter for sysbus tags

  • peripheral access profiling in host time

  • readline-like key bindings

  • forward search in the terminal after pressing C-s

  • text selection in the terminal by word/line on double/triple click

  • system bus access via the External Control API

  • auto-save mechanism, used e.g. for backward debugging, along with an option to load the latest snapshot

  • support for the reverse-continue GDB command

  • support for the reverse-stepi GDB command

  • ability to preserve configuration across emulation reload

  • handling of Trace32's batched register requests

  • creating unlimited number of external MMU regions at runtime

  • ability to place the external MMU before or after the CPU's internal MMU

  • shadow reload and shadow registers API

  • mechanism for loading SFDP data for SPI flash

  • common mechanism of encoding and decoding SFDP via Packets

  • loading gzip-compressed files using DataStorage (VirtIOBlockdevice, SDCard, USBPendrive, CDROM, SamsungK9NANDFlash)

  • IADC extension for setting/getting channel values in volts

  • support for NV12 pixel format in VideoAnalyzer

  • new data transmission and routing events for UART hub

  • support for custom underlying types in UART

  • support for delaying UART transmissions

  • API to disconnect co-simulated blocks

  • exitTimeout option for co-simulation connection termination

  • support for passing arrays to property and field setters in the Monitor

  • support for providing peripheral references to field and property setters

  • export sub-command to the peripherals command

  • specifying enum values in repl using just .Value without the full namespace/type name

  • support for ForEach and Select on enumerables in the Monitor

    • for example cluster0 ForEach PC 0x8000 or qspi.spiFlash SFDPSignature Select ToString "x4"

  • support for passing lists as property/argument values in platform descriptions

  • preinit attribute in repl, executed before any peripherals from the description being loaded are created

    • useful to load ad-hoc models from the platform description level

  • Execution Tracer can now accept arbitrary pc-to-line mappings in the absence of DWARF data

  • logging of peripheral register names in unhandled access warnings of BasicDoubleWordPeripheral

Changed:

  • ./renode now defaults to dotnet

  • formatted Renode code and added autoformat rules

  • dotnet is now a default runtime, use the --mono flag to target an old runtime

  • changed the Windows installer for the .NET version of Renode

  • allowed delaying invalidation of translation blocks on writes

  • optimized memory accesses

  • optimized HST based atomics for single core machines

  • renamed several x86 and x86-64 demos:

    • acrn_x86_64_zephyr demo to acrn_x86_64-zephyr
    • i386-kvm platform to x86-kvm
    • i386-kvm-bios demo to x86-kvm-bios
    • i386-kvm-linux demo to x86-kvm-linux - i386 platform and demo to x86
    • i386_64-kvm platform to x86_64-kvm
    • i386_64-kvm-bios demo to x86_64-kvm-bios
    • i386_64-kvm-linux demo to x86_64-kvm-linux
    • i386_zephyr demo to x86-zephyr

  • set dotnet as default target in VS Code tasks

  • renamed EnableRiscvOpcodesCounting to EnableRiscvOpcodesCountingByExtension

  • local interrupt targets now accept hexadecimal values (syntax- ->peripheral@0x1@1)

  • moved from Gtk2 to Gtk3 on Mono

  • removed support for Conda package

  • Align, Offet, PaddingBefore and Width packet field attributes should now only be used with named arguments

  • improved TCG backtrace debug printing

  • changed timeout measuring to only include the pause command in pause-without-sleep.robot

  • if GNU parallel is installed, tlib will be built in parallel

  • renamed NEORV32_MachineSystemTimer to RiscVMachineTimer

  • changed ClockEntry frequency type to ulong

  • renamed IMXRT700_eDMA to NXP_eDMA

  • improved and simplified PixelManipuationTools blending and conversion

  • GPIO connectors now detach their connections on machine disposal

  • reverse search in terminal now ignores duplicate entries

Fixed:

  • GIC crashing the simulation when parsing SGI InterruptEnd
  • handling of large (>8 bytes) writes to the bus
  • hook addresses in NPCX9 bootrom for Thumb mode
  • Monitor crashing when setting a variable
  • GDB integration on address translation failure
  • infinitely growing dirty addresses list
  • parsing of IPv6 frame headers
  • serialization of RESD-enabled peripherals
  • various freezes appearing when single stepping on multicore platforms
  • CPU registration in clusters
  • crash on older arm64 hosts (e.g. Raspberry Pi 4)
  • PeakRDL-renode generating incorrect register reset values
  • conversion related warnings generated by PeakRDL-renode
  • initial state for APB3 Requester, now the state is initialized only in reset
  • crash when loading `.gz` snapshots
  • WebSocket exec-renode action
  • deadlock when trying to register peripheral in an unregistered parent
  • exception message for registration conflict
  • renode-models-analyzer skipping peripherals on partial register/field overlap
  • TCG buffer overflow
  • CPU symbol hooks not querying per-CPU loaded symbols
  • crash when TranslationCPU.Dispose is called multiple times
  • policykit dependency for Debian packages
  • ending/deactivating interrupts in GIC for non-SGI interrupts without provided cpuId
  • GIC occasionally ignoring affinity bits above the first meaningful byte, when registering CPUs
  • KVM CPU abort on EINTR in initialization
  • occasional null reference exception in DPI integration library
  • possible timer event loss between kvm_run calls
  • race condition when interrupting KVM core execution
  • file descriptor leakage on KVM cores
  • handling of abstract class construction in platform string
  • handling of non-existent DataStore image files
  • handling of unregistered domain thread for RunFor command
  • handling recursive substitution in ExecutionTracer
  • printing sources with .NET ad-hoc compilation diagnostics
  • single-step mode persisting on KVM cores
  • sysbus not respecting registration offsets
  • fixed race on access to ContextKeyDictionary in SystemBus
  • crash when loading empty string with LoadPlatformDescriptionFromString
  • race condition when initialising LLVM disassemblers
  • CoSimulationConnection state after DisconnectAll
  • SystemC Plugin compilation with MSVC
  • compilation on .NET 10

Added peripheral models:

  • Andes ATCGPIO100
  • Andes ATCPIT100
  • Andes ATCSPI200
  • Andes ATCWDT200
  • ARM SMMUv3 (System Memory Management Unit v3)
  • Allegro E310 video encoder
  • Cadence USB stub
  • eDMA for i.MX RT700
  • Egis ET171 AOSMU
  • FocalTech FT9001 Clock & Power Manager (CPM)
  • FocalTech FT9001 Reset
  • FocalTech FT9001 True Random Number Generator (TRNG)
  • FocalTech FT9001 USART
  • i.MX RT700 SYSCON0 and SYSCON1
  • ISSI IS25WP
  • MICFIL for i.MX RT700
  • Puya P25Q Flash
  • S32K3XX DMA multiplexer
  • SAI for i.MX RT700
  • S32K3XX DMA multiplexer
  • STM32 DMAMUX
  • STM32F1 AFIO
  • STM32H SDMMC
  • STM32H7 System Window Watchdog
  • TAS2572 mock
  • VeeR EL2 PIC
  • VeeR EL2 internal timers
  • VirtIO MMIO Console Device
  • VirtIO MMIO Entropy Device

Improvements in peripherals:

  • ADXL345
  • Arm GIC
  • Cadence GEM
  • Cadence UART
  • Cadence xSPI
  • Caliptra I3C
  • FT5336
  • Generic SPI Flash
  • i.MX RT700 CLKCTL
  • IOAPIC
  • LAPIC
  • LIS2DS12
  • LiteX UART
  • MAX32650 over I2C
  • MCAN
  • NRF54H20 GRTC
  • NRF54L Clock
  • NVIC
  • NXP eDMA
  • NXP LPUART
  • OMAP GPTimer
  • OpenTitan SPI Host
  • PL330 DMA
  • Renesas SCI
  • Renesas RA* GPIO
  • Renesas RZG SCIFA
  • RenesasDA Watchdog
  • S32K3XX FlexIO
  • S32K3XX Mode Entry Module
  • S32K3XX MSCM
  • SAM PDC
  • SAM TC
  • SAM USART
  • SAM4S ADC
  • SAM4S PIO
  • SAM4S TWI
  • SAM4S USART
  • SD Card
  • Segger RTT
  • STM32 ADC Common
  • STM32 DMA
  • STM32 DMA2D
  • STM32 LTDC
  • STM32 Timer
  • STM32 UART
  • STM32F SDMMC
  • STM32F4 RCC
  • STM32F7 I2C
  • STM32H7 Crypto
  • STM32H7 Flash
  • Synopsys DWC Ethernet Quality Of Service
  • Universal Flash Storage (JESD220F)
  • VeeR EL2 RISC-V core
  • ZynqMP GQSPI
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