Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Roadmap for 2009 -- Status

[Miklos Vajna]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Prince Riley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Current QEMU limitations:
> 
>    - No SSE/MMX support (yet).
>    - No x86-64 support.
>    - IPC syscalls are missing.
>    - The x86 segment limits and access rights are not tested at every memory
>    access (yet). Hopefully, very few OSes seem to rely on that for normal use.
>    - On non x86 host CPUs, doubles are used instead of the non standard 10
>    byte long doubles of x86 for floating point emulation to get maximum
>    performances.

I don't know if this fits in this list or not, but given that user mode
emulation supports NPTL only on arm/sh, most of today's binaries (think
or a shell, for example) can't be run.

I think this would be really nice to have on common targets like x86 or
PPC.

Thanks.

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