On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:39:27PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Joerg Hoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I want to run some virtual machines on my alpha to play around with with > > different distributions, kernel and such stuff. But noone of the popular > > emulators does imho work on linux/alpha (no emulation of the i386 > > instruction set like booch does). > > qemu mostly works, except it tends to crash on larger programs. Maybe > it is easy to fix. Or maybe not; the pages being larger is a major > obstacle. Adding Alpha emulation should be pretty straight-forward... > at least for emulating userspace.
I want also run a kernel in userspace, as in uml (testing some more or less obscure kernel patches). > > So I asked on the uml-devel-list (user mode linux) how hard it is to > > port the uml patch to other plattforms than i386, because this > > approach seems to me to be the fastest (in terms of execution speed) > > and most generic one. The answers were spare, and I've extracted > > from the answers, that the most problems are the plattform specific > > ones :-| > > It should be easier than for other platforms, since all interaction > with the MMU and similar things (timers etc) is done via firmware > calls. So all you need to do is implement the firmware interface, > which is pretty high-level and well documented. Hm, I will see what I can do next year. But I cannot do that all by myself, since I haven't a deeper knowledge of the linux kernel. > See > ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/alphaCPUdocs/alpha_arch_ref.pdf.gz Thanks, I'll take a look into them. J�rg -- Joerg Hoh
