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* linux x86 binaries on PPC
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@ 2003-03-27 13:35                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  2003-03-27 20:15                       ` Scott Anderson
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt @ 2003-03-27 13:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-dev; +Cc: Gabriel Paubert


Remember that old debate we had about 2 years ago about using an x86
emulator to run x86 binaries on linux/ppc ? Looks like Fabrice Bellard
did it ;)

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Ben.


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* Re: linux x86 binaries on PPC
  2003-03-27 13:35                     ` linux x86 binaries on PPC Benjamin Herrenschmidt
@ 2003-03-27 20:15                       ` Scott Anderson
  2003-03-27 20:40                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Scott Anderson @ 2003-03-27 20:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, Gabriel Paubert


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> Remember that old debate we had about 2 years ago about using an x86
> emulator to run x86 binaries on linux/ppc ? Looks like Fabrice Bellard
> did it ;)
>
> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

I wonder how it compares to bochs:
  http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

    Scott Anderson
    scott_anderson@mvista.com   MontaVista Software Inc.
    (408)328-9214               1237 East Arques Ave.
    http://www.mvista.com       Sunnyvale, CA  94085

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* Re: linux x86 binaries on PPC
  2003-03-27 20:15                       ` Scott Anderson
@ 2003-03-27 20:40                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt @ 2003-03-27 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Scott Anderson; +Cc: linuxppc-dev


On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:15, Scott Anderson wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > Remember that old debate we had about 2 years ago about using an x86
> > emulator to run x86 binaries on linux/ppc ? Looks like Fabrice Bellard
> > did it ;)
> >
> > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
>
> I wonder how it compares to bochs:
>   http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

After a quick look, it's much different.

bochs aims to completely emulate an x86 machine, including the
various HW devices, and in a portable way. I aims to run a whole
operating system (linux,windows,ms-dos, ...) within the emulator.
qemu is a dynamic recomiling emulator (thus less portable, though
potentially much faster) and doesn't do any HW emulation outside
of the CPU itself.
It translates syscalls to the kernel in order to run linux x86
userland binaries on linux ppc.

Ben.


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2003-03-27 13:35                     ` linux x86 binaries on PPC Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-27 20:15                       ` Scott Anderson
2003-03-27 20:40                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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