From: Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix extlh instruction on Alpha
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:23:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <761ea48b0909202323p11d712c1t6a20a1b60e80cc0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909202120.30891.rob@landley.net>
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
>
> Any idea how hard it would be to whip up a qemu-system-alpha emulation? I
> note that several real-world alpha boards were essentially just a PC with a
> different processor. (In fact the original Athlon used the Alpha EV6 bus and
> was pin-compatible, so you could drop-in replace the processor with an Alpha
> if you could somehow reflash the bios with alpha instructions instead of x86.)
>
> I'd like to boot Alpha Linux on qemu, and it doesn't seem like there's _that_
> much more to do. But last I asked (a couple years ago) I was told the Alpha
> protected mode stuff wasn't implemented yet...
There's been a series of patch to add ES40 proposed by Tristan Gingold
last March. Look here:
http://www.archivum.info/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/2009-03/00723/%5BQemu-devel%5D_%5BPATCH_0_24%5D:_add_alpha_es40_system_emulation
Laurent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-21 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 19:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix extlh instruction on Alpha Vince Weaver
2009-09-18 15:25 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-09-21 2:20 ` Rob Landley
2009-09-21 6:23 ` Laurent Desnogues [this message]
2009-09-21 11:37 ` Tristan Gingold
2009-09-21 18:48 ` Rob Landley
2009-09-22 8:04 ` Tristan Gingold
2009-09-21 18:43 ` Rob Landley
2009-09-21 13:31 ` qemu-system-alpha (was: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix extlh instruction on Alpha) Brian Wheeler
2009-09-21 19:07 ` Rob Landley
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2009-09-09 16:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix extlh instruction on Alpha Vince Weaver
2009-09-16 19:52 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-09-16 20:45 ` Vince Weaver
2009-09-16 20:56 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-09-17 16:07 ` Vince Weaver
2009-09-17 16:25 ` Laurent Desnogues
2009-09-17 17:19 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-08-05 3:26 [Qemu-devel] [patch] " Vince Weaver
2009-08-05 6:05 ` Filip Navara
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