From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRsD3-0004O1-FZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:58:49 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRsD0-0004NH-GL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:58:48 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50901 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRsCy-0004Mz-PS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:58:44 -0500 Received: from lizzard.sbs.de ([194.138.37.39]:15167) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRsCy-0003ca-05 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:58:44 -0500 Message-ID: <497F4B55.4090301@siemens.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:58:45 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] HPPA emulation status and perspectives Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: sdbrady@ntlworld.com Cc: qemu-devel Hi Stuart, a customer approached me with the question if QEMU could help him evacuating his HP-UX applications onto an x86 platform. They are using QEMU(/KVM) already and are very happy with it - and they obviously found your hppa-qemu project. To give you an impression of the involved platforms, here is the list of variants that are in use so far: OS version B.10.20: - HP 9000/856/E55 - 96 Mhz - HP 9000/715/E - 100 Mhz - HP 9000/778/B160L - 160 Mhz - HP 9000/785/C3000 - 400 Mhz OS version B.11.11: - HP 9000/785/B2000 - 400 Mhz - HP 9000/785/C3000 - 400 Mhz - HP 9000/785/B2600 - 500 Mhz - HP 9000/785/C3600 - 552 Mhz - HP 9000/785/C3700 - 750 Mhz I'm wondering ATM (and I have to check this with the customer next) if applications might be migratable onto one reference platform so that one could focus the emulation effort on that, either at system or OS level. My question to you is now what the status and plans of hppa-qemu are. hppa-linux-user seems to build, but you say quite some effort is still required to get to some hppa-hpux-user (or so). How much? Or would it be simpler to create some hppa-softmmu? Any thoughts on this would be very appreciated! Note that, provided the efforts are not in the dimension of man-decades, sponsoring the development is said to be feasible. Thanks in advance, Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux