Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu on 2.6.0-rc1

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:53:40PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> you write:
> > It seems I need to update the documentation :-)
> > 
> > Did you try to submit the non QEMU specific patches to Linus ? I think 
> > it is dangerous to leave harcoded constants in somes parts of the kernel.
> 
> I'll see if Andrew takes the whole thing first.  If not, I'll submit
> the "cleanup" part by itself.  I'd really like the whole thing.
> 
> > BTW, in the current CVS, qemu-fast is about 2.3 times faster as the 
> > previous version (still 9 times slower than native on a P2 500 MHz on a 
> > typical 'gcc -pipe' compilation task which involves a lot of task 
> > switches).
> 
> 0.5.1 feels about 10x slower booting the kernel (didn't measure, but
> it's that order of mag).  Under 3 would really sway me...
> 
> > and SMP is getting closer now with my last changes.
> 
> Any idea when it'll be testable?  And do you prefer cash or check?

I'm willing to do extensive testing on SMP capable
qemu, maybe ever gdb support?

I had some nightmares trying to get bochs up and
running in SMP emulation mode, and finally gave
up (too many apic/tsc issues) ...

TIA,
Herbert

> Rusty.
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