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Gavare's eXperimental Emulator -- GXemul 0.3.7 |
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Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Anders Gavare. |
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Overview |
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GXemul is an experimental instruction-level machine emulator. Several |
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emulation modes are available. In some modes, processors and surrounding |
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hardware components are emulated well enough to let unmodified operating |
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systems (e.g. NetBSD) run as if they were running on a real machine. |
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MIPS processors are emulated using either a simple binary translation |
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layer ("recompilation"), which is used on Alpha and i386 hosts, or by |
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traditional interpretation (very very slow, but works on any host platform). |
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ARM and PowerPC processors are emulated using a newer dynamic translation |
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system. Performance is somewhere between traditional interpretation and |
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dynamic recompilation; however, the dynamic translation system used in |
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GXemul does NOT require platform-specific back-end code. In plain English, |
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this means that the dyntrans system works on any host platform. |
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(PowerPC emulation is still relatively new in 0.3.7, so dont't expect too |
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much from it.) |
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Quick start |
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To compile, type './configure' and then 'make'. This should work on most |
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Unix-like systems. If not, then please mail me a bug report. |
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If you are impatient, and want to try out running a guest operating system |
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inside GXemul, please read this: doc/guestoses.html#netbsdinstall |
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If you want to use GXemul for experimenting with code of your own, |
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then I suggest you compile a Hello World program according to the tips |
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listed here: doc/experiments.html#hello |
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Please read the rest of the documentation in the doc/ sub-directory for |
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more detailed information on how to use the emulator. |
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Feedback |
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If you have found GXemul useful in some way, or feel like sending me |
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comments or feedback in general, then mail me at anders(at)gavare.se. |
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