[Qemu-devel] FAUmachine

[Qemu-devel] FAUmachine

[Alexander Graf]

Hi list,

there's been a lot of discussion about abstraction of hardware devices  
and machine description.

Last Saturday I've been running into some developers from the  
University of Erlangen (FAU) who work on an x86 emulator, used to  
simulate machine failures (memory bit flips, hard drive failures) [1].

The most interesting part of their project appears to be the hardware  
abstraction layer. So in the general discussion of creating a generic  
machine description, it might be a good idea to get them to contribute  
their experience to Qemu :-). Maybe we can learn about dead ends and  
unexplored alternatives from them.

FAUmachine guys, it would be awesome if you could either point us to a  
thorough documentation of the device abstraction layers or give some  
overview in a reply to this email.


Alex

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

[Qemu-devel] Re: FAUmachine

[Volkmar Sieh]

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Hi!

Thank you Alexander for introduction!

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

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

> or give some  
> 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
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