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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2
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Brian Wheeler |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2 |
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Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:48:48 -0400 |
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 15:43 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Brian Wheeler wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 14:31 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> >> On Apr 20, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 04/20/2011 08:46 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> >>>> Right, but you could create an ev67 machine with a single PCI
> >>>> controller (or put all the devices on the same PCI controller).
> >>>
> >>> Even the lowly ds10 has two hoses.
> >>>
> >>> I'll admit I hadn't considered engineering the second hose to
> >>> be "present" but always appear empty. It's something to consider.
> >>>
> >>>> Ah, ok I understand. I fear that if you implement your own ISR, you
> >>>> will only be able to boot linux...
> >>>> which I suppose is your primary target. OTOH, it will be much faster
> >>>> than a native ISR.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, Linux is the primary goal.
> >>>
> >>> But I suspect that if I implemented enough of CALL_PAL CSERVE,
> >>> you could boot Tru64, or at least one of the BSDs.
> >>
> >> BSD should be doable, but I doubt for Tru64. Do you have technical doc
> >> about the SRM ?
> >> IIRC, the SRM uses its own palcode and SRM specific pal calls.
> >>
> >
> > The palcode with milo was a subset of the tru64 palcode, I think.
> > Looking at the arch reference manual and assuming that the calls take
> > the same parameters, the only difference is that tru64 has "urti -
> > return from user mode trap" and linux doesn't.
>
> Yes, Linux runs on Tru64 palcode. But the issue is booting the Tru64 kernel.
>
> Tristan.
>
Ah, gotcha. It almost seems like the console could actually be
implemented in qemu itself, rather than a guest side thing, as long as
it looks like part III of the ARM :) It might simplify things quite a
bit: the console callbacks look like they can be translated into qemu
calls and the bootstrapping looks like its a read block zero of selected
device + other blocks specified, setup hwrpb and start emulation. It
looks like its standard across all OSes, with the possible exception of
NT.
*shrug* I'm just an innocent bystander, though.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 20/24] target-alpha: Trap for unassigned and unaligned addresses., (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 20/24] target-alpha: Trap for unassigned and unaligned addresses., Richard Henderson, 2011/04/19
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/24] target-alpha: Cleanup MMU modes., Richard Henderson, 2011/04/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2, Tristan Gingold, 2011/04/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2, Brian Wheeler, 2011/04/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2, Richard Henderson, 2011/04/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2, Tristan Gingold, 2011/04/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2, Richard Henderson, 2011/04/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2, Tristan Gingold, 2011/04/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2, Brian Wheeler, 2011/04/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2, Tristan Gingold, 2011/04/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2,
Brian Wheeler <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2, Richard Henderson, 2011/04/21