Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Alpha target

[J. Mayer]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 22:18 +0100, Stuart Brady wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:57:08PM +0200, J. Mayer wrote:
> > If you are interressed to this target, you may like this:
> > I did, for fun, a preliminary version of the alpha CPU emulation.
> > For now, it implements most of the CPU instructions and should be able
> > to achieve user mode emulation after a debugging pass. For now, only a
> > few static programs start and run. The problem is I have too few free
> > time to debug it correctly and no alpha hardware or specific knowledge
> > to help me.
> > 
> > So, if someone is interrested to debug and develop this target, I could
> > add the code I have to the Qemu repository as a start and let any
> > motivated one go on developping the target.
> 
> Great news!  I was wondering about the reference to 'TARGET_ALPHA' that
> you made recently. :-)  While I'm interested, I can't promise to be of
> much use, as I haven't worked with Alpha before.  OTOH, it can't hurt to
> release the code, and I can certainly check it against documentation.
> 
> There certainly seems to be some interest, anyway. :-)

I did not provide the code because I will not maintain and go on
developping it. And I don't want to add orphean code in the Qemu
repository. But if there is some people ready to work on it, I can do
it.
It already helped me find some fixes to be submited to run 64 bits
program in linux user target mode...


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