--- trunk/doc/intro.html	2007/10/08 16:21:06	33
+++ trunk/doc/intro.html	2007/10/08 16:21:17	34
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
 
 <!--
 
-$Id: intro.html,v 1.100 2006/11/04 06:40:20 debug Exp $
+$Id: intro.html,v 1.106 2007/02/18 09:19:47 debug Exp $
 
-Copyright (C) 2003-2006  Anders Gavare.  All rights reserved.
+Copyright (C) 2003-2007  Anders Gavare.  All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
@@ -95,8 +95,9 @@
 
 <p>If you do not have a kernel as a separate file, but you have a bootable
 disk image, then it is sometimes possible to boot directly from that
-image. (This works for example with DECstation emulation, or when booting
-from ISO9660 CDROM images.)
+image. (This works for example with DECstation emulation, Dreamcast 
+emulation, or when booting from generic ISO9660 CDROM images if the 
+kernel is included in the image as a plain file.)
 
 <p>Thanks to (in no specific order) Joachim Buss, Olivier Houchard, Juli 
 Mallett, Juan Romero Pardines, Alec Voropay, Göran Weinholt, Alexander 
@@ -219,6 +220,10 @@
 guest operating system run (per architecture) are ARM, MIPS, PowerPC,
 and SuperH.
 
+<p>Please read the page about <a href="guestoses.html">guest operating
+systems</a> for more information about the machines and operating systems 
+that can be considered "working" in the emulator.
+
 
 
 
@@ -231,9 +236,10 @@
 GXemul should compile and run on any modern host architecture (64-bit or 
 32-bit word-length).
 
-<p>(The dynamic translation engine translates into an intermediate 
-representation, but not currently into native code. This means that there 
-is no need for per-host architecture backend code.)
+<p>Note: The dynamic translation engine does <i>not</i> require backends 
+for native code generation to be written for each individual host 
+architecture; the "intermediate representation" that the dyntrans system 
+uses can be executed on any host architecture.
 
 
 
@@ -424,14 +430,18 @@
 translations are invalidated, and replaced by normal instruction calls
 (one per emulated instruction).
 
-<p><b>Native Code Back-ends: (not in this release)</b>
+<p><b>Native Code Back-ends:</b>
 
-<p>In theory, it will be possible to implement native code generation
-(similar to what is used in high-performance emulators such as QEMU),
-as long as that generated code abides to the C ABI on the host, but
-for now I wanted to make sure that GXemul works without such native
-code back-ends. For this reason, since release 0.4.0, GXemul is
-completely free of native code back-ends.
+<p>In theory, it will be possible to implement native code generation,
+similar to what is used in high-performance emulators such as QEMU,
+as long as that generated code abides to the C ABI on the host.
+
+<p>However, since I wanted to make sure that GXemul works without such 
+native code back-ends, there are no implemented backends in this release.
+
+<p>(There is a place-holder in the source code for native code generation, 
+which can be used for experiments, but it does not contain any working 
+code at the moment.)
 
 
 
@@ -495,30 +505,34 @@
     <li><b>Acer Pica-61</b> (<a href="guestoses.html#netbsdarcinstall">NetBSD/arc</a>)
     <li><b>NEC MobilePro 770, 780, 800, 880</b> (<a href="guestoses.html#netbsdhpcmipsinstall">NetBSD/hpcmips</a>)
     <li><b>Cobalt</b> (<a href="guestoses.html#netbsdcobaltinstall">NetBSD/cobalt</a>)
-    <li><b>Malta</b> (<a href="guestoses.html#netbsdevbmipsinstall">NetBSD/evbmips</a>)
+    <li><b>Malta</b> (<a href="guestoses.html#netbsdevbmipsinstall">NetBSD/evbmips</a>, Linux/Malta <font color="#0000e0">(<super>*1</super>)</font>)
     <li><b>Algorithmics P5064</b> (<a href="guestoses.html#netbsdalgorinstall">NetBSD/algor</a>)
-    <li><b>SGI O2 (aka IP32)</b> <font color="#0000e0">(<super>*1</super>)</font>
+    <li><b>SGI O2 (aka IP32)</b> <font color="#0000e0">(<super>*2</super>)</font>
 	(<a href="guestoses.html#netbsdsgimips">NetBSD/sgi</a>)
   </ul>
   <p>
   <li><b><u>PowerPC</u></b>
   <ul>
     <li><b>IBM 6050/6070 (PReP, PowerPC Reference Platform)</b> (<a href="guestoses.html#netbsdprepinstall">NetBSD/prep</a>)
+    <li><b>MacPPC (generic "G4" Macintosh)</b> (<a href="guestoses.html#netbsdmacppcinstall">NetBSD/macppc</a>)
   </ul>
   <p>
   <li><b><u>SuperH</u></b>
   <ul>
-    <li><b>Sega Dreamcast</b>
-	<font color="#0000e0">(<super>*2</super>)</font>
-	(<a href="guestoses.html#netbsddreamcast">NetBSD/dreamcast</a>)
+    <li><b>Sega Dreamcast</b> (<a href="dreamcast.html#netbsd_generic_md">NetBSD/dreamcast</a>)
   </ul>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
 <small><font color="#0000e0">(<super>*1</super>)</font> =
-Enough for root-on-nfs, but not for disk boot.</small>
+Linux/Malta may be run as a guest OS, however I have not yet found any stable
+URL to pre-compiled Linux/Malta kernels. Thus, Linux/Malta emulation is not
+tested for every release of the emulator; sometimes it works, sometimes
+it doesn't.</small>
+
 <br><small><font color="#0000e0">(<super>*2</super>)</font> =
-Only enough to reach ramdisk userland; no root-on-nfs yet.</small>
+SGI O2 emulation is enough for root-on-nfs, but not for disk boot.</small>
+
 
 <p>There is code in GXemul for emulation of many other machine types; the
 degree to which these work range from almost being able to run a complete