Stefan Reinauer stepan@coresystems.de writes:
But I doubt AMD is going to add Intel CPU plugins to it ;-)
Can Simics to that stuff?
Yes, it can. Simics is more or less a set of connected components, that is glued together by a set of scripts that builds the system configuration. I know LinuxBIOS has been run on some of the models.
What we need is a full-system simulator with the following characteristics; [...]
For this simulator to be done, a whole lot of understanding of the hardware components is required, maybe including their errata. Adding support for a new component for such a simulator _might_ be more work than writing a bios for the same chipset.
Yeah. I didn't say _we_ should implement a simulator just to run LinuxBIOS on it. Other projects should gain from a simulator, but LinuxBIOS might benefit the most from having one. Lets just hope someone identifies the need outside this project.
~j