[LinuxBIOS] two x86 emulators in the tree...

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi,

which of the following x86 emulators in the tree works better
and are there any plans to eliminate one of them?

LinuxBIOSv2/src/devices/emulator/x86emu/
LinuxBIOSv2/util/vgabios/x86emu/src/x86emu/

Has anyone recently worked to merge this with current x.org
and scitech code?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[ron minnich]

On 11/3/06, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> which of the following x86 emulators in the tree works better
> and are there any plans to eliminate one of them?
>
> LinuxBIOSv2/src/devices/emulator/x86emu/

part of linuxbios

LinuxBIOSv2/util/vgabios/x86emu/src/x86emu/

standalone, for testing.

They had to fork, since one can use glibc, the other can not.

Has anyone recently worked to merge this with current x.org
> and scitech code?

it's been on the list for years. The last time we tried it, with some
"optimized" code from other places, it totally broke.

So we need to be careful.

ron

[Uwe Hermann]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:13:12PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> > which of the following x86 emulators in the tree works better
> > and are there any plans to eliminate one of them?

I've added this to the issue tracker so we don't forget about it:
http://tracker.linuxbios.org/trac/LinuxBIOS/ticket/25

Uwe.