What's New in the Blitz System:
A Chronological Log
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ISA Version 2.1
Posted: 14 December 2023
Various changes to the ISA including overhaul of page tables and the MMU spec, introduction of StackLimit, elimination of the Kernel Exception, addition of ENTERFUN and EXITFUN instructions. New Document “Blitz-64: Memory-Mapped I/O Devices”.
Inclusion of xv6 OS kernel.
Inclusion of MicroBlitz SystemVerilog IP.
Various code additions and modifications.
Update to Assembler Document
Posted: 3 November 2022
Various corrections, cleanup, and reorganization. Corrections to the discussion of calling conventions
to reflect current usage.
ISA Version 2.0
Posted: 18 October 2022
Extensive revisions to the Blitz-64 architecture and to the code base.
Webpage Created
Posted: 25 February 2021
Webpage was created and this log begins.
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