Re: and emulators to try?

["Scott Ellis" <scotte%warped.com@localhost>]

On Mon, March 17, 2008 3:40 pm, Mark Weinem wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Tobias Nygren wrote:
>
>> "Toru Nishimura" <locore64%alkyltechnology.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>
>>> - CPU instruction emulator w/ various super-speedy-runtime technics
>>> - framework to minics computer internals; whole interrupt scheme,
>>>   bus orignizations and of course popular and/or exotic devices.
>>>   [...]
>>
>> So basically something like an emulator kernel running on bare amd64
>> xen DOMU, providing a bintrans/JIT environment that can run unmodified
>> alpha operating systems with acceptable speed? I want it, badly.
>> (This should be a Summer Of Code project!)
>
> Sounds cool! But isn't that too hard for a Soc project?
> Please add it to http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/projects.html

It sounds very similar to "scratchbox" (http://www.scratchbox.org/) on
Linux, which runs binaries from different architectures transparently, but
used to run a kernel and userland, rather than just a handful of userland
pieces.

What value is this to NetBSD though?

     ScottE