On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:58 PM, William Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It will be a process inside a heavily modified QEmu VM. I'm taking > baby steps towards modding the Sparc architecture in QEmu as that has > the biggest open hardware following, and should be relatively clean > compared to the heavily crufty x86 arch. But time is lacking at the > moment to learn the arch properly. My low level coding skills could > use a brush up as well. Things I will change about the arch include, > BIOS stage, MMU and memory protection I'll also add domain and > capability creation/destruction instructions. > > I could possibly create my own arch a lot more quickly, but it would > be no where near as optimised or as cross platform. And I would have > to figure out about interfacing with displays and other IO more than I > have to do if I mod QEmu.
Fair enough, thanks for the clarification. I think you'd be better off creating your own and punting optimization to version 2.0, but if you've decided on this direction, I'll wish you the best of luck with it; and let us know if you get something up and running. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
