Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

2007-03-29 Thread Sunil Amitkumar Janki
Thomas Orgis wrote: Sure, 32bit is vanishing from new hardware sales. You can hardly buy a 32-bit AMD chip anymore and I wouldn't buy a 32-bit Intel chip when you can get a 64-bit AMD for the same price or less. So for me, 32 bits are the state-of-the art, apart from my two machines

Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

2007-03-29 Thread Stuart Brady
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 05:25:47PM +0200, Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote: About the Alphas, it would be great to run Tru64 on them or for the occasional OpenVMS session. I'm looking forward to implementing an Alpha target even though I've never seen or used them. You must be very lucky to have

Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

2007-03-29 Thread J. Mayer
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 17:08 +0100, Stuart Brady wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 05:25:47PM +0200, Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote: About the Alphas, it would be great to run Tru64 on them or for the occasional OpenVMS session. I'm looking forward to implementing an Alpha target even though

Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

2007-03-28 Thread Rob Landley
On Saturday 24 March 2007 8:32 am, Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote: Anyhow, I expect 32-bit hardware to gradually die because of wear and tear in the next few years and the replacement will be 64-bit hardware so the problem will solve itself that way. Specifically, in 2008 32-bit x86 hardware

Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

2007-03-26 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:55:16 + schrieb Julian Seward [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problems of the gcc backend to qemu have already been discussed extensively on this list. Stealing 3+ registers from gcc on x86 really is asking for trouble, and I believe it is generally understood that the

Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

2007-03-24 Thread Sunil Amitkumar Janki
Thomas Orgis wrote: Am Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:45:49 + schrieb Paul Brook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I do not understand enough of QEMU yet, but I have checked out CVS and am reading through its source. When I understand more I hope we can fix this long-standing annoyance. This is GCC

Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

2007-03-24 Thread Julian Seward
As far as X86 is concerned i386/i486/i586 are very different from later generation processors. I am wondering whether another host and target architecture could be created called i686 that makes use of something like MMX or other registers in Intel Pentium II/III/4 and AMD Athlon to negate

Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:13:00 +0100 schrieb Sunil Amitkumar Janki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have seen this error as well when building with i686/pentium3/athlon optimisations. As I am doing a course on x86 assembly programming at the moment I can tell you that it suffers from register starvation

Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:45:49 + schrieb Paul Brook [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I do not understand enough of QEMU yet, but I have checked out CVS and am reading through its source. When I understand more I hope we can fix this long-standing annoyance. This is GCC PR16185

Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

2007-03-22 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:18:40 + schrieb Nigel Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The first part is true, the second is not, in that I already upgraded to the 686 kernel, so the qemu build on FC6 is not fixed by installing the 686 kernel. So, do we have any other clue about this? Some qemu coder

Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.9.0 and svn don't build with -march=pentium2 etc.; was: Latest SVN fails to build on Fedora Core 6 (same with 0.9.0)

2007-03-22 Thread Sunil Amitkumar Janki
Thomas Orgis wrote: Am Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:18:40 + schrieb Nigel Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The first part is true, the second is not, in that I already upgraded to the 686 kernel, so the qemu build on FC6 is not fixed by installing the 686 kernel. So, do we have any other clue