Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] Alpha system emulation, v2

[Brian Wheeler <bdwheele@indiana.edu>]

I'd like to second Tristan in saying that I'm glad someone is working on
alpha system emulation -- its long overdue!  

Brian

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 11:06 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> > Changes from v1 to v2:
> >  - Split patch 5 up into little pieces.  These pieces were compile
> >    tested by applying patch 23 (Enable alpha-softmmu) out of sequence
> >    so that both softmmu and linux-user targets were built.  But in
> >    the end I chickened out and re-ordered the enable patch to last.
> > 
> >  - The TB->FLAGS patch is more comprehensive.  In doing the split I
> >    noticed that we were doing funny things with AMASK that really
> >    ought to have belonged in the TB in the first place.
> > 
> >  - The patch for unassigned addresses is more comprehensive.  I had
> >    previously failed to do the if-deffing dance in the generic part
> >    of QEMU.
> > 
> >  - The PALcode source is added as a submodule.
> 
> Richard,
> 
> it looks like I miss the v1.  Anyway, some random comments:
> 
> * thank you for working on that!
> 
> * sx164 is ev56 based, isn't it ?  It would be nice if cpu version specific code is clearly marked.
>   In particular (and IIRC), pal mode for ev6 is much closer to ev4 than to ev5.  Don't know about ev7.
>   It would be nice if we could easily support both ev5 and ev6.
> 
> * Yes, executive and supervisor are used only by VMS (well AFAIK).  I'd like to support it.
>   Did you try to also support the windows mmu mode ?
> 
> * Again, thank you for working on that.
> 
> Tristan.
> 
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