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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ix64 target support
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:12:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409291412.11100.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096407437.4234.711.camel@fred.soliddesign.net>

On Tuesday 28 September 2004 22:37, Joe Batt wrote:
> Actually, I'm just interested in 64bit address space, so any 64 bit chip
> with a Linux distro would be great.  Would some old 64 bit risc chip
> (Alhpa or HPPA) be easier?
>
> I assume a lot of the interrupt and memory management can be adapted
> from the x86 qemu code.  The SH2 was pretty simple in this respect and
> there was only one "mode".  Anyone out there want to help me work though
> some of this?
>
> Volume 3 from
> http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_739_7044,00.h
>tml lists all the opcodes and what they do.  I started the SH2 emulator by
> writing tests for each opcode, then the implementation from a document like
> this.  Is there anything else I need to evaluate before I start
> implementing opcodes?

You'll probably also need to implement SSE+SSE2. Certainly the linux amd64 ABI 
uses these.

Paul

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-29 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-28 16:52 [Qemu-devel] ix64 target support Joe Batt
2004-09-28 17:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2004-09-28 20:58 ` Karl Magdsick
2004-09-28 21:37   ` Joe Batt
2004-09-29  3:17     ` Kyle Hayes
2004-09-29  9:35       ` [Qemu-devel] " Andi Kleen
2004-09-29 13:12     ` Paul Brook [this message]

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