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+LatticeMico32 target
+--------------------
+
+General
+-------
+All opcodes including the JUART CSRs are supported.
+
+
+JTAG UART
+---------
+JTAG UART is routed to a serial console device. For the current boards it
+is the second one. Ie to enable it in the qemu virtual console window use
+the following command line parameters:
+ -serial vc -serial vc
+This will make serial0 (the lm32_uart) and serial1 (the JTAG UART)
+available as virtual consoles.
+
+
+Semihosting
+-----------
+Semihosting on this target is supported. Some system calls like read, write
+and exit are executed on the host if semihosting is enabled. See
+target/lm32-semi.c for all supported system calls. Emulation aware programs
+can use this mechanism to shut down the virtual machine and print to the
+host console. See the tcg tests for an example.
+
+
+Special instructions
+--------------------
+The translation recognizes one special instruction to halt the cpu:
+ and r0, r0, r0
+On real hardware this instruction is a nop. It is not used by GCC and
+should (hopefully) not be used within hand-crafted assembly.
+Insert this instruction in your idle loop to reduce the cpu load on the
+host.
+
+
+Ignoring the MSB of the address bus
+-----------------------------------
+Some SoC ignores the MSB on the address bus. Thus creating a shadow memory
+area. As a general rule, 0x00000000-0x7fffffff is cached, whereas
+0x80000000-0xffffffff is not cached and used to access IO devices. This
+behaviour can be enabled with:
+ cpu_lm32_set_phys_msb_ignore(env, 1);
+