Re: Compiling error : ppc440_bamboo.o fails

[Giuseppe Falsetti <giuseppe@czero.it>]

Hollis Blanchard ha scritto:
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 19:30 +0100, Giuseppe Falsetti wrote:
>   
>> Hi Hollis,
>> no I don't have a  440, I have only many 970 :-|
>> So I can't hope that KVM will support 970 cpus? Qemu already support 
>> this, why for KVM is so difficoult?
>>     
>
> Implementing KVM for 970 would require emulating the 970 core in the
> kernel (probably the MMU would be the most difficult). I won't say this
> is easier or harder than qemu, but it's hard in different ways.
>   
Sorry, but, for example if I want to emulate an x86 system on a 970 
Host, I need to emulate an x86 core and not the 970.
Or not? Obviously the emulation is slowly with and without 970 features 
optimizations.
>> Noone is interested? Or the problem is the HW to develop/test on?
>>     
>
> I can't speak for anybody else, but I think it's mostly interest. I have
> a G5 at home, but not enough time/interest to work on KVM for it.
>
>   
>> I can participate only as tester, I'm not a developer, but I can provide 
>> the HW for the cause.
>>     
>
> Unfortunately at this point some pretty low-level development is
> required. Thanks for your offer though; maybe somebody else on this list
> will be interested.
>   
I hope :-)

Giuseppe.