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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to create new target port?
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To: Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com>
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Am 23.05.2012 16:37, schrieb Michael Eager:
> On 05/22/2012 11:18 PM, =E9=99=B3=E9=9F=8B=E4=BB=BB wrote:
>>> I'm investigating adding a new target architecture
>>> to QEMU.  Are there documents, how-to's, or other
>>> guidance on how to approach this?  Or any advice?
>>>
>>> I noticed that there are a number of directories for
>>> architectures like target-arm and target-mips.  There
>>> are also definitions under tcg for arm and mips.  I
>>> noticed that target-microblaze exists, but there is
>>> no microblaze directory under tcg.  What does this
>>> mean?
>>
>>    Depends on what you'd like to add, a guest or a host support. If=20
>> you want to
>> add a new guest, take target-xxx/* as an example. Otherwise, looks at=20
>> tcg/xxx/*.
>> The term "target" could be a little MISLEADING here. :)
>
> I'm interested in adding a new emulated architecture,
> not a new host.  So adding a new target-<arch> sounds
> like the plan.

Yes, that's the place for new target architectures.

Which architecture are you thinking of? Maybe someone else
is already working on it. http://wiki.qemu.org/Links has an
incomplete list of links to unofficial versions of QEMU which
support additional targets.

Regards,
Stefan Weil