From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Adriano Galano" Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:59:18 +0000 Subject: RE: [parisc-linux] Re: [Linux-ia64] Linux, Itanium and PA/RISC Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org > Hi, > Hi again: > m.delahaye@esiee.fr (Matthieu Delahaye) wrote: > > As far as I know, the PA-Risc instruction mapping is done with lots of > software help. The concept is a bit like JIT-Compilers in Java. (It is > easier to do this when having a RISC code with equal > instruction length > compared to ugly X86 code.) As long as my knowledge is correct, you > therefore cannot run any PA-RISC OS directly on the Hardware, but you > can run PA-RISC Software in any OS that supports the instruction > mapping, maybe one can even run a PA-RISC OS inside a virtual PA-RISC > Machine on Itaniums. (However I don't know any such VM.) > Which VM are ported to Linux IA64? Bochs? Virtuozzo? VMWare? Plex86? Recent Microsoft adquisition (http://www.connectix.com/fr/about/acquisition_faq.html) is focus in this sense I think. Regards, -Adriano > Markus > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-IA64 mailing list > Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org > http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64