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From: Volkmar Sieh <Volkmar.Sieh@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: FAUmachine
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Hi!

Thank you Alexander for introduction!

> Hi list,
>
> there's been a lot of discussion about abstraction of hardware devices =
=20
> and machine description.
>
> Last Saturday I've been running into some developers from the Universit=
y=20
> of Erlangen (FAU) who work on an x86 emulator, used to simulate machine=
=20
> failures (memory bit flips, hard drive failures) [1].
>
> The most interesting part of their project appears to be the hardware =20
> abstraction layer. So in the general discussion of creating a generic =20
> machine description, it might be a good idea to get them to contribute =
=20
> their experience to Qemu :-). Maybe we can learn about dead ends and =20
> unexplored alternatives from them.
>
> FAUmachine guys, it would be awesome if you could either point us to a =
=20
> thorough documentation of the device abstraction layers

Sorry. No such documentation exists... :-(
But I'm currently preparing some sheets... ;-)

> or give some =20
> overview in a reply to this email.

Just wait some time...
I'll try to get the documentation ready for distribution next week.

> Alex
>
> [1] http://www.faumachine.org

	Volkmar
--=20
Dr.-Ing. Volkmar Sieh            Universit=E4t Erlangen-N=FCrnberg
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