Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Roadmap for 2009 -- Status

[Andreas Färber]

Hello,

Am 15.12.2008 um 19:18 schrieb Prince Riley:

> GreetingsI am writing to ask if anyone can respond to this post with  
> a summary of the current efforts underway to work on the points  
> mentioned in the lst below for the x86 and ARM processor platforms.

The document you quote has this at the bottom:
"This document was generated on 5 February 2007 [...]"

The most up-to-date documentation is in SVN, that usually gets updated  
whenever a new feature is added.

Andreas

> Is there a development/release roadmap for adding these features ? I  
> am interested in the work toward adding support for the ARM9  
> processor.
>
> Thanks
>
> Prince Riley
>
> 1.2 x86 emulation
> Current QEMU limitations:
>
>         • No SSE/MMX support (yet).
>         • No x86-64 support.
>         • IPC syscalls are missing.
> 	• The x86 segment limits and access rights are not tested at every  
> memory access (yet). Hopefully, very few OSes seem to rely on that  
> for normal use.
> 	• On non x86 host CPUs, doubles are used instead of the non  
> standard 10 byte long doubles of x86 for floating point emulation to  
> get maximum performances.
> 1.3 ARM emulation
>         • Full ARM 7 user emulation.
>         • NWFPE FPU support included in user Linux emulation.
>         • Can run most ARM Linux binaries.