I'd like to second Tristan in saying that I'm glad someone is working on alpha system emulation -- its long overdue!
Brian On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 11:06 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote: > On Apr 19, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Richard Henderson wrote: > > > Changes from v1 to v2: > > - Split patch 5 up into little pieces. These pieces were compile > > tested by applying patch 23 (Enable alpha-softmmu) out of sequence > > so that both softmmu and linux-user targets were built. But in > > the end I chickened out and re-ordered the enable patch to last. > > > > - The TB->FLAGS patch is more comprehensive. In doing the split I > > noticed that we were doing funny things with AMASK that really > > ought to have belonged in the TB in the first place. > > > > - The patch for unassigned addresses is more comprehensive. I had > > previously failed to do the if-deffing dance in the generic part > > of QEMU. > > > > - The PALcode source is added as a submodule. > > Richard, > > it looks like I miss the v1. Anyway, some random comments: > > * thank you for working on that! > > * sx164 is ev56 based, isn't it ? It would be nice if cpu version specific > code is clearly marked. > In particular (and IIRC), pal mode for ev6 is much closer to ev4 than to > ev5. Don't know about ev7. > It would be nice if we could easily support both ev5 and ev6. > > * Yes, executive and supervisor are used only by VMS (well AFAIK). I'd like > to support it. > Did you try to also support the windows mmu mode ? > > * Again, thank you for working on that. > > Tristan. > > >