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From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
To: Brad Boyer <flar@cegt201.bradley.edu>
Cc: jpgarcia@execpc.com (Joseph Palani Garcia),
	linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: EM86 port for LinuxPPC?
Date: 11 Jun 1999 15:29:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3emjivpao.fsf@soma.andreas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Brad Boyer's message of "Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:03:00 -0500 (CDT)"


Brad Boyer <flar@cegt201.bradley.edu> writes:

> our own x86 emulation library to replace it.  This isn't so much of a
> problem, because there is already a basic x86 emulator in one of the
> bootloaders, to be able to run BIOS code from PCI cards with x86 BIOS
> chips on them.  I started looking at it, but then I went on to

And then there is bochs, which is a complete PC emulator, and which
certainly could be modularized:

http://www.bochs.org

It reaches the speed of a 2 MHz 486 on my 300 MHz G3, so it's not
exactly a viable option for running x86 binaries on PPC.

Andreas

-- 
Reality is two's complement. See:
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/hakmem/hacks.html#item154

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-06-11 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-10 18:13 EM86 port for LinuxPPC? Joseph Palani Garcia
1999-06-10 21:03 ` Brad Boyer
1999-06-10 21:28   ` [patch] mol quit-at-shutdown Brad Midgley
1999-06-11 12:03     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-06-11 13:29   ` Andreas Bogk [this message]
1999-06-11 23:08     ` EM86 port for LinuxPPC? Brad Boyer
1999-06-18 10:14     ` Gabriel Paubert
1999-06-10 22:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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