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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Roadmap for 2009 -- Status
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Miklos Vajna |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Roadmap for 2009 -- Status |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:44:25 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
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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