From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Brad Boyer Cc: jpgarcia@execpc.com (Joseph Palani Garcia), linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: EM86 port for LinuxPPC? References: <199906102103.QAA15072@cegt201.bradley.edu> From: Andreas Bogk Date: 11 Jun 1999 15:29:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: Brad Boyer's message of "Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:03:00 -0500 (CDT)" Message-ID: Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Brad Boyer 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 [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]