Gxemul // Full-system Computer Architecture Emulation


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Hi

Today i've found GXEmul [ http://gavare.se/gxemul/ ], a very interesting attempt to emulate full-system computer architecture and processors (ARM, MIPS, Motorola 88K, PowerPC, and SuperH). It could be interesting thing for developers that dont have real Pandora or GP2X/Wiz system.

Some info from www page:

GXemul is a framework for full-system computer architecture emulation. Several real machines have been implemented within the framework, consisting of processors (ARM, MIPS, Motorola 88K, PowerPC, and SuperH) and surrounding hardware components such as framebuffers, interrupt controllers, busses, disk controllers, and serial controllers. The emulation is working well enough to allow several unmodified "guest" operating systems to run. Here are some examples:

NetBSD/pmax
OpenBSD/pmax
NetBSD/cats
OpenBSD/landisk
Ultrix
Sprite/DECstation
Debian/DECstation
Linux/Dreamcast

BTW. It sounds more than interesting...
 
Sounds about the same as qemu, but it remains to be seen if it supports ARMv7a like qemu does. Unfortunately, you still won't get a lot of OMAP3530 hardware, so it's mainly useful for code with ARM ASM. Otherwise you're as well off just testing it on a Linux PC.
 
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