From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mpnvh-0001lQ-Ip for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:48:05 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mpnvh-0001ky-2n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:48:05 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44756 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mpnvg-0001kk-VX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:48:04 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:43797 helo=grelber.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mpnvg-0004eC-H8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:48:04 -0400 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix extlh instruction on Alpha Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:48:01 -0500 References: <20090917152502.G54732@stanley.csl.cornell.edu> <761ea48b0909202323p11d712c1t6a20a1b60e80cc0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909211348.01904.rob@landley.net> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Tristan Gingold Cc: Laurent Desnogues , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Monday 21 September 2009 06:37:24 Tristan Gingold wrote: > On Sep 21, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Laurent Desnogues wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Rob Landley wrote: > >> I'd like to boot Alpha Linux on qemu, and it doesn't seem like > >> there's _that_ > >> much more to do. But last I asked (a couple years ago) I was told > >> the Alpha > >> protected mode stuff wasn't implemented yet... > > > > There's been a series of patch to add ES40 proposed by Tristan Gingold > > last March. Look here: > > > > http://www.archivum.info/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/2009-03/00723/%5BQemu-deve > >l%5D_%5BPATCH_0_24%5D:_add_alpha_es40_system_emulation > > I haven't had time to continue to work on it. It was able to boot and > run linux and partially boot > tru64. Both AlphaBios and SRM were ok. > > The main issue was speed and IO-TLB (necessary for Tru64 and VMS). I'm only worrying about Linux at the moment. If the patch series boots Linux, I'm happy to test it. Did you boot Linux with -kernel? Do you have the Linux .config you used? And what gcc/binutils tuple were you using? (Just straight alpha-unknown-linux?) Thanks, Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds