On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 13:49 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > J. Mayer wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 19:49 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > > On Sunday 14 October 2007 5:14:27 am J. Mayer wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 11:19 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote: > > > > > Hi list! > > > > > > > > Hi you ! > > > > > > > > > Just wanted to know how far the progress on alpha target is? I would > > > > > be > > > > > happy if I have some 'virtual alpha' to test new isos. > > > > > > > > > > If I can help some way (I have a few alphas around). Let me know. > > > > > > > > I'm happy to see someone interresting in improving Alpha support, which > > > > is .... very alpha for now ! > > > > > > I'm interested in testing Alpha too, but I haven't seem a > > > qemu-system-alpha > > > show up yet. Alas, I have no hardware or specific expertise in this > > > platform, I'm just trying to build and boot Linux kernels (and > > > corresponding > > > root filesystems) on as many emulated target platforms as I can. > > > > There are a lot of things missing for qemu-system-alpha to be available: > > - the PALCode emulation is far from being complete or even usable > > - there is no hardware machine emulation for Alpha in Qemu. > > As I have no Alpha platform, I don't know much about the hardware to be > > emulated. > > But the first step about the Alpha target would be to properly debug the > > linux-user-mode emulation, that would validate the core CPU INSNS > > emulation part. > > I guess my Alpha CPU and ABI knowledge is too restricted to find the > > problem of most program crashing for now. It seems to me that the Unique > > register is not initialized properly, but this is just a guess and I > > have no idea of what's going wrong with this register and what should be > > its value. > > Could you record the limitations you know about in a STATUS file and > commit that to the target-alpha directory?
You're right. I will commit a status file today. -- J. Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never organized