On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 19:32 +0200, Marco Matthies wrote: > Blue Swirl wrote: > > BTW, we could easily design and implement an ideal CPU just for Qemu > > purposes. It could be unlike any existing hardware, for example with > > zero or thousands of registers. The problem would be making a compiler > > for the CPU, also porting some OS to it. Any GCC and Linux guru > > volunteers? CS research projects? > > How about MMIX? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMIX > > There is already a simulator/assembler here: > http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmix-news.html > > Marco >
It might not be a bad idea, especially since MMIX is well documented and fairly simple. However, since it doesn't have real devices (Just traps to do OS-like things), it'd probably be good to have a simple CPU with some simple devices so newcomers can copy it as a starting point for other projects. Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
