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<b>Gavare's eXperimental Emulator: </b></font> |
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<font color="#000000" size="6"><b>Introduction</b> |
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Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Anders Gavare. All rights reserved. |
Copyright (C) 2003-2006 Anders Gavare. All rights reserved. |
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without |
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modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: |
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<h2>Introduction</h2> |
<h2>Introduction</h2> |
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<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a> |
<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a> |
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<li><a href="#free">Is GXemul Free software?</a> |
<li><a href="#free">Is GXemul Free software?</a> |
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<li><a href="#build">How to compile/build the emulator</a> |
<li><a href="#build">How to compile/build the emulator</a> |
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<li><a href="#run">How to run the emulator</a> |
<li><a href="#run">How to run the emulator</a> |
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<li><a href="#cpus">Which CPU types does GXemul emulate?</a> |
<li><a href="#cpus">Which processor architectures does GXemul emulate?</a> |
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<li><a href="#accuracy">Emulation accuracy</a> |
<li><a href="#accuracy">Emulation accuracy</a> |
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<li><a href="#emulmodes">Which machines does GXemul emulate?</a> |
<li><a href="#emulmodes">Which machines does GXemul emulate?</a> |
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academic research and experiments, such as when learning how to write |
academic research and experiments, such as when learning how to write |
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operating system code. |
operating system code. |
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<p>The emulator is written in C, does not depend on third-party libraries |
<p>The emulator is written in C, does not depend on third-party libraries, |
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(except X11, but that is optional), and should compile and run on most |
and should compile and run on most 64-bit and 32-bit Unix-like systems. |
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<p>The emulator contains code which tries to emulate the workings of CPUs |
<p>The emulator contains code which tries to emulate the workings of CPUs |
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and surrounding hardware found in real machines, but it does not contain |
and surrounding hardware found in real machines, but it does not contain |
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The "easiest way out" if you plan to redistribute code from GXemul is, of |
The "easiest way out" if you plan to redistribute code from GXemul is, of |
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course, to let it remain open source and simply supply the source code. |
course, to let it remain open source and simply supply the source code. |
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<p>(If a stable, unmodified release of GXemul is packaged into binary form, |
<p>In case you want to reuse parts of GXemul, but you need to do that |
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and it is clear which version of GXemul was used to build the package, |
under a different license (e.g. the GPL), then contact me and I might |
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then it can be argued that the source code is available, just not in that |
re-license/dual-license files on a case-by-case basis. |
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$ <b>make</b> |
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<p>This should work on most Unix-like systems. If it doesn't, then |
<p>This should work on most Unix-like systems. GXemul does not require any |
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mail me a bug report. |
specific libraries to build, however, if you build on a system which does |
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<p>The emulator's performance is highly dependent on both runtime settings |
<p>The emulator's performance is highly dependent on both runtime settings |
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and on compiler settings, so you might want to experiment with different |
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<h3>Which CPU types does GXemul emulate?</h3> |
<h3>Which processor architectures does GXemul emulate?</h3> |
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<h4>MIPS:</h4> |
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<h4>ARM:</h4> |
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ARM emulation is good enough to run NetBSD/cats 2.1 and OpenBSD/cats 3.8, |
ARM emulation is good enough to run NetBSD/cats, OpenBSD/cats, and |
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but it is not as tested or fine-tuned as the MIPS emulation mode. |
NetBSD/evbarm, but it is not as tested or fine-tuned as the MIPS emulation |
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<h4>PowerPC:</h4> |
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<li><b><u>MIPS</u></b> |
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<li><b>DECstation 5000/200</b> ("3max") |
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<li><b>Acer Pica-61</b> (an ARC machine) |
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<li><b>NEC MobilePro 770, 780, 800, and 880</b> (HPCmips machines) |
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<li><b>Cobalt</b> |
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<li><b>Malta</b> (evbmips) |
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<li><b><u>ARM</u></b> |
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<li><b>CATS</b> |
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<li><b><u>PowerPC</u></b> |
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<p>There is code in GXemul for emulation of many other machine types; the |
<p>There is code in GXemul for emulation of many other machine types; the |
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degree to which these work range from almost being able to run a complete |
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OS, to almost completely unsupported (perhaps just enough support to |
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<super>*</super> Although Linux runs under DECstation emulation, the |
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default 2.4.27 kernel in Debian GNU/Linux does not support keyboards on |
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the 5000/200 (the specific DECstation model being emulated), so when the |
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login prompt is reached you cannot interact with the system. Kaj-Michael |
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mips-linux development tree. You can find it here: <a |
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