Internships/ProjectIdeas/CentralRegisterRegistry

Central Register Registry

Summary: Provide a new internal API for accessing register values

Currently there are a number of places that need to access guest register values including:

-d cpu output
hmp/qmp info registers
gdbstub

and places that would like to access the register values like the TCG plugins sub-system.

Currently this is all handled by each individual front-end interfacing to the various sub-systems. It's time to bring that functionality under a single roof so front-ends just notify a central registry of how to access values and the central code can deal with interfacing with the other subsystems. Then quality of life improvements could be added like:

customising the registers the -d cpu displays
giving access to other registers in QMP/HMP
de-duplicating the GDB XML generation for extra registers
hooking in TCG plugins

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Skill level: intermediate
Language: C
Mentor: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> ("stsquad" on IRC)
Suggested by: Alex Bennée