From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjDmF-00065D-QF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:50:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjDmD-00064w-DQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:50:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjDmD-00064t-BH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:50:01 -0400 Received: from relay01.mx.bawue.net ([193.7.176.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjDmC-0007w2-T5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:50:01 -0400 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:49:45 +0100 From: Thiemo Seufer Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu alpha? Message-ID: <20071020124945.GF4544@networkno.de> References: <4711DF16.1040307@linux-kernel.at> <1192356867.9976.376.camel@rapid> <200710191949.14806.rob@landley.net> <1192870572.16781.29.camel@rapid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1192870572.16781.29.camel@rapid> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "J. Mayer" Cc: oliver , qemu-devel@nongnu.org J. Mayer wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 19:49 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > On Sunday 14 October 2007 5:14:27 am J. Mayer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 11:19 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote: > > > > Hi list! > > > > > > Hi you ! > > > > > > > Just wanted to know how far the progress on alpha target is? I would be > > > > happy if I have some 'virtual alpha' to test new isos. > > > > > > > > If I can help some way (I have a few alphas around). Let me know. > > > > > > I'm happy to see someone interresting in improving Alpha support, which > > > is .... very alpha for now ! > > > > I'm interested in testing Alpha too, but I haven't seem a qemu-system-alpha > > show up yet. Alas, I have no hardware or specific expertise in this > > platform, I'm just trying to build and boot Linux kernels (and corresponding > > root filesystems) on as many emulated target platforms as I can. > > There are a lot of things missing for qemu-system-alpha to be available: > - the PALCode emulation is far from being complete or even usable > - there is no hardware machine emulation for Alpha in Qemu. > As I have no Alpha platform, I don't know much about the hardware to be > emulated. > But the first step about the Alpha target would be to properly debug the > linux-user-mode emulation, that would validate the core CPU INSNS > emulation part. > I guess my Alpha CPU and ABI knowledge is too restricted to find the > problem of most program crashing for now. It seems to me that the Unique > register is not initialized properly, but this is just a guess and I > have no idea of what's going wrong with this register and what should be > its value. Could you record the limitations you know about in a STATUS file and commit that to the target-alpha directory? Thiemo