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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Roadmap for 2009 -- Status
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Martin Mohring |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Roadmap for 2009 -- Status |
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Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:21:38 +0100 |
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Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Prince Riley <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Current QEMU limitations:
>>
>> - No SSE/MMX support (yet).
>> - No x86-64 support.
>> - IPC syscalls are missing.
>>
Kirill A. Shutemov sent patches for most IPC calls in user mode, but
only a few were accepted for some unknown to me reason.
>> - The x86 segment limits and access rights are not tested at every memory
>> access (yet). Hopefully, very few OSes seem to rely on that for normal
>> use.
>> - On non x86 host CPUs, doubles are used instead of the non standard 10
>> byte long doubles of x86 for floating point emulation to get maximum
>> performances.
>>
>
> I don't know if this fits in this list or not, but given that user mode
> emulation supports NPTL only on arm/sh, most of today's binaries (think
> or a shell, for example) can't be run.
>
They do in fact not run powerpc in user mode. To run modern powerpc
binaries, also two other missing syscalls are needed.
> I think this would be really nice to have on common targets like x86 or
> PPC.
>
yes, definititely.
Martin