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Re: Assessment of the difficulty in porting CPU architecture for qemu
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Alistair Francis |
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Re: Assessment of the difficulty in porting CPU architecture for qemu |
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Thu, 15 Feb 2024 13:33:16 +1000 |
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 5:35 PM 方 <1584389042@qq.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone! I am working on implementing a tool to assess the complexity
> of CPU architecture porting. It primarily focuses on RISC-V architecture
> porting. In fact, the tool may have an average estimate of various
> architecture porting efforts.My focus is on the overall workload and
> difficulty of transplantation in the past and future,even if a project has
> already been ported.As part of my dataset, I have collected the **qemu**
> project. **I would like to gather community opinions to support my
> assessment. I appreciate your help and response!** Based on scanning tools,
> the porting complexity is determined to be high, with a significant amount of
> code related to the CPU architecture in the project. Is this assessment
> accurate?Do you have any opinions on personnel allocation and consumption
> time? I look forward to your help and response.
The people who did the original QEMU RISC-V port aren't involved any more.
You are correct that QEMU is significantly complex to port to a new
architecture compared to most other userspace software. I think it
would be similar to other JIT software in that regard.
Alistair
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