[Qemu-devel] Re: x86 on Arm status Was: OVMF Google Summer of Code ideas

[Michal Suchanek]

Hello

On 7 March 2011 11:22, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 6 March 2011 15:29, Michal Suchanek <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I would like to see the ability to run x86 on arm.
>>
>> I think there were some attempts to implement this and an outdated?
>> support for arm on x86 exists but x86 cannot be emulated on arm so
>> far.
>
> ARM on x86 isn't outdated; it has bugs (what code doesn't?) but we're
> working on squashing those; I definitely care about A-profile ARM
> targets, so if you have specific bugs please report them and I will
> investigate.

Thanks for the update.

>From what I have seen on the list the ARM support was a patch for some
old version of qemu.

Since I don't have easy access to the hardware and the support was
reportedly missing I did not even try.

If it was merged into current that's great.

Thanks

Michal