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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:23:19 +0200
From: "Laurent Desnogues" <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] targets that still use dyngen
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:58 AM, C.W. Betts <computers57@hotmail.com> wrote:
> What targets still use dyngen?  According to the current source tree, Alpha,
> CRIS PowerPC, and SH4 are still using dyngen; they have an op.c file in
> their target- directory:
> ls */op.c
> target-alpha/op.c       target-cris/op.c        target-ppc/op.c
> target-sh4/op.c

CRIS has been converted to TCG.  I guess the op.c file is a left-over.

> I know nothing about architecture design, so I don't know how much effort
> would be needed to get the rest of these targets to use TCG.  I know
> somebody here (malc) has helped make the TCG backends for PowerPC, and
> surely the work for the front-end wouldn't be that much harder (I say
> naively).  Also, is anyone doing work porting these to TCG that we don't
> know about?

According to the maintainer list, Jocelyn Mayer is the owner of the
Alpha and PPC targets.  You could perhaps try to ask him
directly.


Laurent