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Re: QEMU

On wo, 2006-10-18 at 14:33 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Kars de Jong wrote:
> > On do, 2006-10-12 at 18:37 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > > So we see that aranym-amd64 and aranym-i386 are about the same
> > > > > speed, that crest is between 3 and 4 times faster and that the
> > > > > host is between 250 and 400 times faster.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for doing such an extensive benchmark. For testing package builds,
> > > > we really need Petr's disk access speedups ...
> > > 
> > > Which brings us to another question: would qemu for m68k be faster?
> > 
> > Heh. It probably would be.
> > 
> > I once started an m68k version, thinking it might help Debian. I had
> > most of the complicated addressing modes implemented too. I got stuck
> > when I ran into FPU instructions in the C startup code.
> 
> Generating an exception and just letting the FPU emulator in the kernel
> handle it didn't work?

Umm, no, this was user mode emulation. I figured that would be easier to
implement (and also more useful for Debian) than full system emulation.
Besides, what system would it emulate? There are many m68k systems out
there...

Kars.
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