From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BM8uA-0004nc-Qe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 13:12:58 -0400 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BM8te-0004aq-Bb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 13:12:57 -0400 Received: from [62.4.22.250] (helo=miranda.irvinig.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BM8td-0004a6-Rk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 13:12:26 -0400 Received: from trinity.irvinig.org (trinity.irvinig.org [192.168.0.2]) by miranda.irvinig.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F02240095 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 19:06:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by trinity.irvinig.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BAE2007442 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 19:13:31 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Impractical ideas? From: Irvin Probst In-Reply-To: <1083923060.4526.186.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <1083923060.4526.186.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1083950010.27253.24.camel@trinity.irvinig.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 19:13:30 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 11:44, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Someone was muttering the other day about the possibility of putting > qemu in the kernel and using it to run i386 binary-only modules in > non-i386 host kernels. > > I think it's a sick idea, but I might look at it anyway. After all, it's > no worse than running the ACPI crap in an interpreter. Powerbook owners are gonna love you if it works for their airport extreme wifi cards (broadcom). Of course using linuxppc + kqemu + ndiswrapper + a windows driver is a bit crazy... -- Irvin Probst There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.