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

[Tristan Gingold]

On Sep 21, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Laurent Desnogues wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Rob Landley <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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

I haven't had time to continue to work on it.  It was able to boot and  
run linux and partially boot
tru64.  Both AlphaBios and SRM were ok.

The main issue was speed and IO-TLB (necessary for Tru64 and VMS).

Tristan.