Feature wishlist

[Teufelchen1]

• When crashing, print the count of execution steps. Together with a cli flag like --steps=$count, this could easily be used to triage bugs
• The current way of handling the address map (memory::default_hifive()) does not feel "Rust 🦀". It would be nice if the whole memory access logic could be expressed as a single match addr statement (or similar).
  • Current work tries to have the "address bus" as a trait that must be implemented by a given board.
• A student pitched the idea of a "heat map for memory access". That sounds cool.
• The way mmapped periphery needs a thread to function is not ideal. Either make threading a feature (after all, periphery is async by nature) or find an other solution. Chrysn mentioned interior mutability as an option.
  • Works well with threads and the peekable channel
• Printing of the registers names / instruction names is very long and a bit ugly code. Are there better solutions?
• Interrupts!
• GDB stub