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From: Sunil Amitkumar Janki <psychicistnonconformist@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu alpha?
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Cc: "J. Mayer" <l_indien@magic.fr>, oliver@linux-kernel.at

Rob Landley wrote:
> I'm interested in testing Alpha too, but I haven't seem a 
> qemu-system-alpha
> show up yet.  Alas, I have no hardware or specific expertise in this 
> platform, I'm just trying to build and boot Linux kernels (and corresponding 
> root filesystems) on as many emulated target platforms as I can.
>
> Rob
>   
Hi Rob,

I've been reading Alpha documentation, that I was pointed to
by Wikipedia, over the summer, because I too would like to see
a qemu-system-alpha. The problem is I don't really know how
to develop for QEMU in general and in particular this target.

The QEMU source code looks very complicated and opaque to me,
but that may be because I lack the necessary knowledge and
experience to reach a thorough understanding of it. I would
appreciate it if someone could tell me where and how to start.

Regards,
Sunil