Joshua Wise wrote:
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On Monday 12 April 2004 10:44 am, ron minnich wrote:
x86 emulator will probably be to ugly a path to use on an ARM platform.
I'm not sure I agree. I think it is doable.
Just remember that ARM is probably too slow to emulate x86 anywhere near as fast as you would like to run drivers. Also remember that XScale does not have floating point, so it's not really worth your while to put a 3D accel on an XScale system. FWIW, most XScale machines that I've seen use the "pxafb" - the internal LCD driver.
I can't say much, but we need and use the 3-D graphics.
For an alternative for LinuxBIOS that works on ARM systems, you might consider looking into the handhelds.org bootldr, or my LAB (Linux As Bootldr) code. If you have questions, ping me on IRC ... irc.freenode.net #handhelds.org (I'm joshua_.)
We could just run Angel, U-Boot or Redboot but we would like LinuxBIOS since there are PC type peripherals on-board, PCI bridges, southbridges, audio accelerators etc (theswe are not weenie PDA boards). We may have 8-16 cpu's on PCI-X 64b/133. Areas where LinuxBIOS beats the pants off the other bootloaders.
-Bari