Minimum hardware emulation needed to boot a OS on ARM?

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Baer
Hi everyone,  I am a student at the University of Manchester and as part of a project, I am extending the Java Dynamic Binary Translator Pearcolator (pearcolator.sourceforge.net) to support the ARM instruction set. Sorry to start my first posting to your list with a question, but it would be re

Re: Minimum hardware emulation needed to boot a OS on ARM?

2007-05-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Michael, > I am a student at the University of Manchester and as part of a > project, I am extending the Java Dynamic Binary Translator Pearcolator > (pearcolator.sourceforge.net) to support the ARM instruction set. > Sorry to start my first posting to your list with a question, but it > would

Re: Minimum hardware emulation needed to boot a OS on ARM?

2007-05-11 Thread Michael Baer
Hi Ralph, thanks for your answer! I'm really happy to receive such a quick response. Yes, Pearcolator instruments a JVM to perform Dynamic Binary Translation. For ARM, I translate the ARM instructions into a stream of Pearcolator's intermediate instruction format and then, those intermediate in