From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXhv8-0003rx-1j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:31:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXhv6-0003qr-Aa for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:31:05 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXhv5-0003ql-Hg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:31:03 -0400 Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GXi38-0003St-7n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:39:22 -0400 Message-ID: <452D2AA7.30801@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:32:23 +0200 From: Marco Matthies MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Blue Swirl wrote: > BTW, we could easily design and implement an ideal CPU just for Qemu > purposes. It could be unlike any existing hardware, for example with > zero or thousands of registers. The problem would be making a compiler > for the CPU, also porting some OS to it. Any GCC and Linux guru > volunteers? CS research projects? How about MMIX? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX There is already a simulator/assembler here: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmix-news.html Marco