From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hd4uE-0007F5-Ba for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:36:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hd4uC-0007Es-Bj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:36:37 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hd4uC-0007Ep-7G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:36:36 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hd4pg-00005s-Fj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:31:56 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] 16-bit (and 8-bit) emulation Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:31:52 +0100 References: <4621F9B8.8090808@bandsman.co.uk> <200704151354.47567.paul@codesourcery.com> <462220E9.1090904@bandsman.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <462220E9.1090904@bandsman.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704151431.52913.paul@codesourcery.com> 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 > > My point is that pretty much anything that runs on a 286 should also run > > on any subsequent x86 processor. If you want to test 16-bit x86 > > software/systems you don't need an actual 286. A 386 is just as good for > > almost all purposes. > > How does that address my issue? You wanted a 286 so that you could test 16-bit x86 code. You can already do that with current qemu. How you generate that 16-bit x86 code is a completely unrelated (and offtopic) problem. Paul