Mark Martin wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:07 PM, John Sonnenschein
> <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com <mailto:johnsonnenschein at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> (cutting down on the number of CC:'s)
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> Mark, were you thinking of a MIPS32 or a MIPS64 ( my personal
> preference would go towards mips64, but I can see arguments for
> both sides )
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> MIPS64 would be my preference as well, but I'm not ruling out MIPS32
> in the beginning just to get going. I'm also thinking of where Guy S.
> left off with regards to the PPC port, and some of the VM issues he
> came across. I'm fairly certain the Octeon processor supports both.
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My suggestion would be to pick a target that one of the better emulators
supports. That is, take a look at what qemu and gxemul, and the SGI
emulator whose name I forget at the moment support and pick from
something in that lis ( for example, I'm relatively certain that the O2
simulator works, and can boot IRIX to some degree. )
