Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu alpha?

[J. Mayer]

On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 13:49 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> J. Mayer wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 19:49 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > On Sunday 14 October 2007 5:14:27 am J. Mayer wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 11:19 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> > > > > Hi list!
> > > >
> > > > Hi you !
> > > >
> > > > > Just wanted to know how far the progress on alpha target is? I would 
> > > > > be
> > > > > happy if I have some 'virtual alpha' to test new isos.
> > > > >
> > > > > If I can help some way (I have a few alphas around). Let me know.
> > > >
> > > > I'm happy to see someone interresting in improving Alpha support, which
> > > > is .... very alpha for now !
> > > 
> > > I'm interested in testing Alpha too, but I haven't seem a 
> > > qemu-system-alpha 
> > > show up yet.  Alas, I have no hardware or specific expertise in this 
> > > platform, I'm just trying to build and boot Linux kernels (and 
> > > corresponding 
> > > root filesystems) on as many emulated target platforms as I can.
> > 
> > There are a lot of things missing for qemu-system-alpha to be available:
> > - the PALCode emulation is far from being complete or even usable
> > - 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.
> > But the first step about the Alpha target would be to properly debug the
> > linux-user-mode emulation, that would validate the core CPU INSNS
> > emulation part.
> > I guess my Alpha CPU and ABI knowledge is too restricted to find the
> > problem of most program crashing for now. It seems to me that the Unique
> > register is not initialized properly, but this is just a guess and I
> > have no idea of what's going wrong with this register and what should be
> > its value.
> 
> Could you record the limitations you know about in a STATUS file and
> commit that to the target-alpha directory?

You're right. I will commit a status file today.

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