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Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation
From: |
J. Mayer |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation |
Date: |
18 Nov 2003 13:13:14 +0100 |
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 12:39, Raymond W. Lucke IV wrote:
> That's really cool that you have the preliminary PPC emulation, and I
> noticed that you have cleaned a few things up. I wonder if your changes
> will make my port to Darwin any easier. ;-)
>
I'm sorry, but I don't think so.
The biggest problem to make qemu run under Darwin isn't to make it
compile, this is really easy. The problem is to emulate Linux syscalls.
There is a huge work to do there to make it usable. And you have to
consider that you need one syscall remapper for each emulated
architecture (not true, but not so far...). An alternative solution is
_not_ to make the port and say that qemu for Linux PPC will run directly
with Panther, as it includes the Linux emulation from FreeBSD.
You can notice that the syscall emulation is, by now, far from correct,
for PPC target, in qemu... I didn't spent time on this point, because
it's really a big problem and it's not so funny to do...
Regards
--
J. Mayer <address@hidden>
Never organized
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] tests for PPC target., (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] tests for PPC target., J. Mayer, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] tests for PPC target., J. Mayer, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] tests for PPC target., J. Mayer, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] tests for PPC target., J. Mayer, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] tests for PPC target., J. Mayer, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] tests for PPC target., J. Mayer, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] tests for PPC target., J. Mayer, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, Gwenole Beauchesne, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, J. Mayer, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, Raymond W . Lucke IV, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation,
J. Mayer <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, Raymond W . Lucke IV, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, Jocelyn Mayer, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, Chad Page, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, J. Mayer, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, Jocelyn Mayer, 2003/11/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, Gwenole Beauchesne, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, Johan Rydberg, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, Gwenole Beauchesne, 2003/11/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [ADD] PPC processor emulation, Jocelyn Mayer, 2003/11/18