Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Improve alpha-linux userspace emulation

[Tristan Gingold]

On Dec 10, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Richard Henderson wrote:

> 
> The following patch series results in an emulator that's good enough
> to run a good bit of the GCC testsuite, dynamic linking and all.
> There are more failures than native hardware.  At first glance they
> appear to be fpu related, but I havn't investigated properly yet.

Richard,

just in case you weren't aware and are interested: I was able to make an es40 
emulation in qemu good enough
to start Linux.  I did this work several months ago, so it need revival.
At this time the main limitation was the absence of IOMMU abstraction in qemu.

Tristan.