Am 07.02.2010 um 13:54 schrieb Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>:
On 02/04/2010 05:55 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
In an effort to get KVM on PPC more useful for other userspace
users than
Qemu, I figured it'd be a nice idea to implement virtualization of
the
Gekko CPU.
The Gekko is the CPU used in the GameCube. In a slightly more modern
fashion it lives on in the Wii today.
Using this patch set and a modified version of Dolphin, I was able to
virtualize simple GameCube demos on a 970MP system.
As always, while getting this to run I stumbled across several broken
parts and fixed them as they came up. So expect some bug fixes in
this
patch set too.
This is halfway into emulation rather than virtualization. What
does performance look like when running fpu intensive applications?
It is for the FPU. It is not for whatever runs on the CPU.
I haven't benchmarked things so far,
The only two choices I have to get this running is in-kernel emulation
or userspace emulation. According to how x86 deals with things I
suppose full state transition to userspace and continuing emulation
there isn't considered a good idea. So I went with in-kernel.
I might have missed it, but I didn't see the KVM_CAP and save/
restore support for this.
Ah, cap again. Right. Mind if I send an patch on top of the set?
As far as save/restore goes, the ioctl to get/set fprs isn't even
implemented (yet)! We're really off full state migration to/from
userspace yet.
Alex
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