From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43)
	id 1IjrtF-0004zK-7l
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:39:57 -0400
Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43)
	id 1IjrtD-0004yV-Fn
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:39:56 -0400
Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjrtD-0004yM-AR
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:39:55 -0400
Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8])
	by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32)
	(Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <oliver@linux-kernel.at>)
	id 1IjrtC-0003RF-R1
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:39:55 -0400
Received: from pils.linux-kernel.at ([213.129.242.82]
	helo=mail.linux-kernel.at) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60)
	(envelope-from <oliver@linux-kernel.at>) id 1IjrtB-0007nQ-NC
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:39:54 -0400
Received: from vie-of.office.ecetra.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	(authenticated bits=0)
	by mail.linux-kernel.at (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9M7dkga027728
	for <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:39:47 +0200
Message-ID: <471C53C2.9050101@linux-kernel.at>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:39:46 +0200
From: Oliver Falk <oliver@linux-kernel.at>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu alpha?
References: <4711DF16.1040307@linux-kernel.at>	<1192870572.16781.29.camel@rapid>	<200710210543.14960.rob@landley.net>
	<200710211155.38488.paul@codesourcery.com>
In-Reply-To: <200710211155.38488.paul@codesourcery.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>,
	<mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/qemu-devel>
List-Post: <mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>,
	<mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=subscribe>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 10/21/2007 12:55 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
>>> - there is no hardware machine emulation for Alpha in Qemu.
>>> As I have no Alpha platform, I don't know much about the hardware to be
>>> emulated.
>> I do know that the ev6 bus is the same as the Athlon used.
> 
> The CPU bus is pretty much irelevant. It's almost entirely transparent from a 
> software/emulation PoV.
> 
> IIUC some of the alpha machines did use fairly standard PC-style peripherals 
> though.

Yes. That's actually right. There where PCs that actually looked like a
standard PC - inside and outside. But it had a Alpha CPU and AlphaBios
of course :-)

-of