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@aykevl aykevl commented Apr 12, 2025

Use multiple cores of the "baremetal" riscv-qemu target. The goal is to iron out all the bugs on an easy-to-debug target before moving on to more interesting targets like RP2040. After this PR is done, the RP2040 should be relatively easy to add support for (since I already wrote most of that code).

Work in progress. This already mostly works, but there are a few things that still need to be fixed:

  • There's a timing bug where if one goroutine pauses, and another already running goroutine pauses for a shorter time, the second may not be woken up at the earlier time. fixed!
  • Timers (time.NewTimer etc) need to be implemented.
  • Stack scanning (for the GC) needs to be implemented.

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@aykevl aykevl force-pushed the threading-qemu branch 2 times, most recently from 10e4d44 to f459e91 Compare June 2, 2025 16:06
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aykevl commented Jun 2, 2025

Rebased and fixed one of the 3 issues listed above.

@aykevl aykevl force-pushed the threading-qemu branch 2 times, most recently from ec20c22 to c981526 Compare June 3, 2025 10:27
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aykevl commented Jun 3, 2025

Implemented support for timers.

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