Re: Re: [Qemu-devel] Timing problems

2005-08-30 Thread Sven Zenker
Hi, > Hm. hard choice.correctness traded for perfomance But > anywayIMHO this hack is needed for every speed-step enabled > machine. Perhaps...the other workaround is via cpufreqd? I don't have > any Pentium M based PC/laptop around, so this is just a pure guess Yeah, you can al

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu optimization

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Brook
> I just downloaded the patched tree off your page. Tried to build it > (./configure && make) compiling on Debian GNU/Linux, gcc version 3.3 but > no-workey. > Any idea what I'm doing wrong (I haven't given it a hard look yet)? Fixed. Paul ___ Qemu-de

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu optimization

2005-08-30 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:17 +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > You might want to look at my hand-coded backed for qemu. The intention is > that > this will eventually replace dyngen/gcc altogether. Currently everything > except the experimental m68k target uses a mixture of the old and the > micro-ops

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minor bug in 0.7.1 install

2005-08-30 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Greg Bell wrote: sdl_too_old=no - +sdl=yes if test -z "$sdl" ; then sdl_config="sdl-config" This is not sufficient as a lot of the SDL logics is contained in the if block you have now disabled.. you need to also at minimum set sdl_config, sdl_static and sdl_static_libs

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minor bug in 0.7.1 install

2005-08-30 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Greg Bell wrote: $config_mak is a makefile fragment, not a shell script, so this should work fine. hmmm... configure errors out for me after i hack it to force static linking with SDL and this is what i traced it to. here's the actual output rather than my possibly flaw

[Qemu-devel] usermode emulation for ppc host

2005-08-30 Thread Antonio Vargas
Having a look at the sources, I've noticed that extra ppc registers are only used when doing usermode-inly emulation and not when doing fullsystem-mode. Can anyone tell me where should I look for problems when disabling that restriction? I've already tried to enable the use of these registers but o

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU_TMPDIR temp folder for KQEMU for Windows.

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Brook
> "When using KQEMU, QEMU will create a big hidden file containing the RAM of > the virtual machine. For best performance, it is important that this file > is kept in RAM and not on the hard disk. QEMU uses the `/dev/shm' directory > to create this file because tmpfs is usually mounted on it (check

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU_TMPDIR temp folder for KQEMU for Windows.

2005-08-30 Thread Francois Rioux
Filip,   I'm not trying to put the guest in ram.  As you state, let's Windows manage its whole memory, paging and swapping.  I agree it would be as dumb as setting up a ramdisk to put the swapfile. Let's not trying to outsmart the OS.   I was trying to follow Fabrice recommendation to set the QEMU

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu optimization

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Brook
> > Without them, there is no native code run by qemu - everything is > > translated. > > Yep. But even in that situation, there will always be room for > improvement in how the dynamic code generator works. > > I wonder, has anyone tried doing a peephole optimizer? Translate key > instruction sequ

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU_TMPDIR temp folder for KQEMU for Windows.

2005-08-30 Thread Filip Navara
Francois Rioux wrote: [snip] Ramdisk might have been a real performance accelerator for Windows hosts with enough RAM available. Since I can't find the temp memory image file is saved, I can't use that option. Why do you think that it would improve performance? Sorry, but that's complete ru

[Qemu-devel] qemu optimization

2005-08-30 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 17:59 -0400, Jim C. Brown wrote: > Um, KQEMU/qvm86 don't do dynamic translation. They are virtualizers. They run > the code given to them (more or less) unchanged. Sorry, I was speaking more generally (and imprecisely) about the qemu/kqemu as a combination. As you state belo

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minor bug in 0.7.1 install

2005-08-30 Thread Greg Bell
$config_mak is a makefile fragment, not a shell script, so this should work fine. hmmm... configure errors out for me after i hack it to force static linking with SDL and this is what i traced it to. here's the actual output rather than my possibly flawed analysis :) # ./configure Install p

Re: [Qemu-devel] Minor bug in 0.7.1 install

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Brook
> 1) on my FC3 box, i had to force sdl to compile statically because > the sdl test didn't work for some reason (could be my box's > problem). but there's no way to set sdl = 'yes' from the > configure command line. so i hacked configure, but then line > 730 dies: > > echo "SDL_LIBS=