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		seusscat on May 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing a RISC-V Emulator from Scratch Could you please elaborate on what the differences between the two implementations are?

d0iasm on May 1, 2020 [–]

The main difference between them is the number of instructions are supported. Rvemu supports RV64GC, while rvemu-for-book will support RV64I and instructions that xv6 uses (e.g. mul).

Also rvemu will support a device tree but rvemu-for-book won't.

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