Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Roadmap for 2009 -- Status

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Prince Riley wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> I am writing to ask if anyone can respond to this post with a summary of the
> current efforts underway to work on the points mentioned in the lst below for
> the x86 and ARM processor platforms.
> 
>    Is there a development/release roadmap for adding these features ? I am
>    interested in the work toward adding support for the ARM9 processor.
>    Thanks
>    Prince Riley
> 
> [1]1.2 x86 emulation
> 
>    Current QEMU limitations:
>      * No SSE/MMX support (yet).
>      * No x86-64 support.
>      * IPC syscalls are missing.

I've posted IPC syscalls implementation, but only msg* was merged. :(

>      * The x86 segment limits and access rights are not tested at every
>        memory access (yet). Hopefully, very few OSes seem to rely on that
>        for normal use.
>      * On non x86 host CPUs, doubles are used instead of the non standard
>        10 byte long doubles of x86 for floating point emulation to get
>        maximum performances.
> 
> [2]1.3 ARM emulation
> 
>      * Full ARM 7 user emulation.
>      * NWFPE FPU support included in user Linux emulation.
>      * Can run most ARM Linux binaries.
> 
> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. http://bellard.org/qemu/qemu-tech.html#TOC3
>    2. http://bellard.org/qemu/qemu-tech.html#TOC4
> 
>    Hidden links:
>    3. http://bellard.org/qemu/qemu-tech.html#TOC3

-- 
Regards,  Kirill A. Shutemov
 + Belarus, Minsk
 + ALT Linux Team, http://www.altlinux.org/

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