Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix extlh instruction on Alpha

[Laurent Desnogues]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Rob Landley <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Any idea how hard it would be to whip up a qemu-system-alpha emulation?  I
> note that several real-world alpha boards were essentially just a PC with a
> different processor.  (In fact the original Athlon used the Alpha EV6 bus and
> was pin-compatible, so you could drop-in replace the processor with an Alpha
> if you could somehow reflash the bios with alpha instructions instead of x86.)
>
> I'd like to boot Alpha Linux on qemu, and it doesn't seem like there's _that_
> much more to do.  But last I asked (a couple years ago) I was told the Alpha
> protected mode stuff wasn't implemented yet...

There's been a series of patch to add ES40 proposed by Tristan Gingold
last March.  Look here:

http://www.archivum.info/address@hidden/2009-03/00723/%5BQemu-devel%5D_%5BPATCH_0_24%5D:_add_alpha_es40_system_emulation


Laurent