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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix extlh instruction on Alpha
From: Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
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To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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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? =
=A0I
> note that several real-world alpha boards were essentially just a PC with=
 a
> different processor. =A0(In fact the original Athlon used the Alpha EV6 b=
us and
> was pin-compatible, so you could drop-in replace the processor with an Al=
pha
> 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 _t=
hat_
> much more to do. =A0But 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