On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 5:35 PM 方 <1584389...@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
