On Saturday 20 October 2007 3:59:30 am Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > 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. > > > > Rob > > Hi Rob, > > I've been reading Alpha documentation, that I was pointed to > by Wikipedia, over the summer, because I too would like to see > a qemu-system-alpha. The problem is I don't really know how > to develop for QEMU in general and in particular this target. > > The QEMU source code looks very complicated and opaque to me, > but that may be because I lack the necessary knowledge and > experience to reach a thorough understanding of it. I would > appreciate it if someone could tell me where and how to start.
Start here: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix05/tech/freenix/bellard.html Fabrice Bellard's Usenix paper describing the design of qemu. (I found the PDF easier to read, myself.) Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson.