Potential to copy a recompiler from PCSX2's IOP.

[ADormant]

PS2 IOP is PS1 CPU with GTE and MDEC. Right now pcsx2 devs are fixing IOP emulation in PCSX2 based on hardware tests and planning to add a recompiler. Perhaps you could copy that recompiler from PCSX2 to rustation in the future? Also check hardware tests.

PCSX2/pcsx2@135cdfc

[simias]

That's pretty cool. Thanks for the link. They want to dynarec the IOP?

[ADormant]

They want to dynarec the IOP?

Yes not sure if it already works.

[pcercuei]

I'm working on a dynarec: https://github.com/pcercuei/lightrec
It uses GNU Lightning as the low-level assembler, so it already runs on x86, x86_64, ARM, MIPS and probably others. I did plug it into PCSX to test it, and it boots the BIOS and most of my games.
Would it be useful for you guys?

[simias]

Hey @pcercuei, thanks for the heads up.

I think at the moment it wouldn't make a lot of sense to integrate a dynarec in rustation (I need to fix other things first). However https://github.com/libretro/beetle-psx-libretro would probably be interested (it's libretro's mednafen PSX fork). I think they already had somebody working on a dynarec but there hasn't been an update in a while now so maybe it's dead.