Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu alpha?

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 20 October 2007 3:59:30 am Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > I'm interested in testing Alpha too, but I haven't seem a
> > qemu-system-alpha
> > show up yet.  Alas, I have no hardware or specific expertise in this
> > platform, I'm just trying to build and boot Linux kernels (and
> > corresponding root filesystems) on as many emulated target platforms as I
> > can.
> >
> > Rob
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> I've been reading Alpha documentation, that I was pointed to
> by Wikipedia, over the summer, because I too would like to see
> a qemu-system-alpha. The problem is I don't really know how
> to develop for QEMU in general and in particular this target.
>
> The QEMU source code looks very complicated and opaque to me,
> but that may be because I lack the necessary knowledge and
> experience to reach a thorough understanding of it. I would
> appreciate it if someone could tell me where and how to start.

Start here:
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix05/tech/freenix/bellard.html

Fabrice Bellard's Usenix paper describing the design of qemu.  (I found the 
PDF easier to read, myself.)

Rob
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