> On 23.10.2009, at 12:50, Boyapati, Anitha wrote: > > > Luckily Uli just added support for s390x, so you can take a look at > his patchset and see what needs to be done. >
Yes. Recent S390x support should give us a good idea. > The reason you should try to do things on Linux is that it's a lot > easier to implement a user-mode target than a system emulation target. > So if I were you, I'd start off by implementing an AVR32 Linux > userspace target. Apart from the syscall translation that should be > almost completely a subset of the system emulation. > > Once you have found your user mode emulation to work, you can start > implementing the softmmu and privileged opcodes. Also, you'll need > some sort of "machine" you're running on then. So if I were you again, > I'd implement a typical AVR32 developer board emulation. > This definitely sounds logical. Thanks for the immediate response. > It's great to see someone from Atmel actually taking on the challenge! > I'd love to see AVR32 support in Qemu. It's FWIW the only completely > missing major target. It was in queue for sometime now. As there is very little support for AVR32 emulation, it has become increasingly important to have a full-fledged AVR32 emulator. Hence QEMU. Regards Anitha
