Talk:MIPS architecture/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

MIPS licensees: soft IP and hard IP

A new section similar to ARM_architecture#ARM_licensees would be nice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doors5678 (talk • contribs) 13:31, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Missing JALR instruction?

Is the "MIPS assembly language" section missing the "jalr" instruction? From the SPIM (MIPS emulator) documentation "Jump and link register - jalr rs, rd - Unconditionally jump to the instruction whose address is in register rs. Save the address of the next instruction in register rd (which defaults to 31)." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.79.68.235 (talk) 21:44, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

CPU family section improvement (table)

It would be nice to add a column that would detail the instructions width; an another for the supported ABI(s) (application binary interface); and a last one for the supported endianness. Adding a line for the VIPER MIPS32 CPU would be nice to.78.116.90.239 (talk) 17:08, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Free MIPS64 Simulator

Hello! I belong to a free (as in free speech) MIPS64 CPU Simulator development team. Do you think that it's acceptable to add the simulator's URL to the "External links" sections? The URL is http://www.edumips.org, the simulator's name is EduMIPS64. Thanks!

I think this is a judgement call which depends on whether or not you are able to reference something relevant in the article which is directly relevant to the article topic. 77.101.47.254 (talk) 15:43, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

The lw and sw instructions are both real and pseudo

Both lw and sw can be both real instructions or pseudo, depending on the operand. If referring to a 32 bit label address, lw and sw will expand into 2 instructions as below.

   sw          rn, label[31:0]

becomes:

   lui         at, label[31:16]
   sw          rn, label[15:0](at)

   lw          rn, label[31:0]

becomes:

   lui         rn, label[31:16]
   lw          rn, label[15:0](rn)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.233.211.182 (talk) 05:52, 27 May 2014 (UTC) 

Computer architecture courses in universities and technical schools often study the MIPS architecture.[6]

This sentence is in the lead section, but it doesn't get expanded in the main article (courses are only mentioned in the simulator section). The citation does not support the statement; it is just one course listing that happens to use MIPS. I don't dispute the statement, but we should structure it better and support it with secondary sources. --Nczempin (talk) 13:16, 5 December 2014 (UTC)