From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJFEn-0002Wy-W1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:49:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJFEm-0002VD-OZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:49:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35296 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJFEm-0002VA-KT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:49:28 -0500 Received: from are.twiddle.net ([75.149.56.221]:34273) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJFEm-0004Xb-BB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:49:28 -0500 Message-ID: <4B22DA80.20308@twiddle.net> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:49:20 -0800 From: Richard Henderson MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Improve alpha-linux userspace emulation References: <8CBD51F5-9866-4B28-AAC7-4283FC941778@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <8CBD51F5-9866-4B28-AAC7-4283FC941778@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Tristan Gingold Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 12/11/2009 02:08 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote: > just in case you weren't aware and are interested: I was able to make > an es40 emulation in qemu good enough to start Linux. I did this > work several months ago, so it need revival. At this time the main > limitation was the absence of IOMMU abstraction in qemu. At the moment I'm most interested in being able to test gcc, so user-level is enough. However, being able to boot a real kernel would be a Really Cool Thing. BTW, who takes care of reviewing and committing patches to non-mainstream cpus like this? r~