Paul Brook wrote: > Better would be to lobby ARM to allow open source emulators. > "I'd like to use ARM hardware for <big project>, but qemu doesn't support > ARMv7 so I'm thinking of using PowerPC instead" is a particularly good > argument ;-)
I suspect ARM's business model - dependent wholly on licensing the ARM architecture in various forms - would make it very difficult for them to agree to that argument even if it would gain them one customer. It'll be interesting when someone develops a compiler that uses very detailed machine descriptions - with enough detail to describe an architecture well enough that the description can also be used (by a different program) to emulate it to a significant degree. They need good compilers to support the architrecture. But a very detailed machine description is also their business nightmare: the basis for software, and later hardware, implementations of their architecture. I wonder if people such as yourself will be able to contribute to the development of the machine description for such a compiler. -- Jamie _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
