[Qemu-devel] ARM->ARM

[Qemu-devel] ARM->ARM

[Nitin Natarajan]

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Hi all,
        I have been thinking about doing a project that will try to run
windows mobile executable on a linux based mobile phone. I just wanted to
know if this would be feasible and if I could use parts of qemu to achieve
the same. I also thought of extracting the assemble from the windows
executable and trying to run that after doing a 1->1 ARM mapping. Your
comments will be very helpful. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards

Nitin

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Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM->ARM

[Paul Brook]

On Sunday 18 January 2009, Nitin Natarajan wrote:
> Hi all,
>         I have been thinking about doing a project that will try to run
> windows mobile executable on a linux based mobile phone. I just wanted to
> know if this would be feasible and if I could use parts of qemu to achieve
> the same. I also thought of extracting the assemble from the windows
> executable and trying to run that after doing a 1->1 ARM mapping. Your
> comments will be very helpful. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Sounds like you just need to port Wine.

You don't need to do any instruction translation or hardware emulation, so 
qemu is unlikely to be of any real use to you.

Paul

Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM->ARM

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <200901181632.26646.paul@codesourcery.com>
            Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> writes:
: On Sunday 18 January 2009, Nitin Natarajan wrote:
: > Hi all,
: >         I have been thinking about doing a project that will try to run
: > windows mobile executable on a linux based mobile phone. I just wanted to
: > know if this would be feasible and if I could use parts of qemu to achieve
: > the same. I also thought of extracting the assemble from the windows
: > executable and trying to run that after doing a 1->1 ARM mapping. Your
: > comments will be very helpful. Looking forward to hearing from you.
: 
: Sounds like you just need to port Wine.
: 
: You don't need to do any instruction translation or hardware emulation, so 
: qemu is unlikely to be of any real use to you.

The other option would be to do something ala the Citrus Project from
a few years ago on NetBSD and execute PECOFF binaries directly in the
kernel.

Wine has a LOT of x86 specific code in it and would be very hard to
port.

Warner