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? Thiemo
