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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about a
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Blue Swirl |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target] |
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Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:16:48 +0300 |
On 9/9/08, Brian Wheeler <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Long time listener, first time caller...
>
> Since the ES40 Alpha Emulation project seems to have stalled, I've been
> looking at what it would take to get QEmu to a state where it could
> emulate an alpha machine.
>
> The es40 is basically a PC with an alpha chip instead of an x86 and it
> uses the Ali1543C south bridge. This basically is a copy of piix_pci.c
> so the chipset reports the ALI vendor and device codes to qemu when the
> "alipc" machine type is selected.
IMHO pc.c would support more machines more cleanly if hardware
definition structures like Sparc ones were used. Otherwise the patch
looks fine to me.
> I've booted Knoppix and it seems to work ok...which is no surpise
> considering how minor the changes are.
>
> So, now to the questions:
> * Is anyone else working on a softmmu target for the alpha?
>
> * What state is the alpha cpu emulation in, and what's the best way to
> test it?
>
> * What's the most simple -softmmu target that could be used as a
> starting point?
Depends on what you know, x86 is quite baroque but everyone knows the
basic architecture. Sparc32 is pretty simple.
> * Where is the virtual->physical address translation code? I peeked
> around and couldn't find it very easily.
cpu_*_handle_mmu_fault(), usually in target-*/helper.c.
> * Looking over some of the softmmu targets, it looks like the bulk of
> target work (after the cpu emulation, of course) is just attaching all
> of the devices in the right places.
True. Also it's not hard to create new devices.
- [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target], Brian Wheeler, 2008/09/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target],
Blue Swirl <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target], Tristan Gingold, 2008/09/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target], Brian Wheeler, 2008/09/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target], Tristan Gingold, 2008/09/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target], Paul Brook, 2008/09/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target], Tristan Gingold, 2008/09/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target], Paul Brook, 2008/09/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target], Laurent Desnogues, 2008/09/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target], Brian Wheeler, 2008/09/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target], Avi Kivity, 2008/09/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target], Brian Wheeler, 2008/09/10