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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] I/O load crashes Qemu
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:36:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080613233653.E6C2A5B46@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:26:42 EDT." <E77A11B1-402A-4CAD-B8C7-874B3E09F261@mac.com>

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:26:42 EDT Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>  wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
>
> > IMHO a virtualizable processor is the necessary first step as
>
>
> And don't forget the cost of a virtualizer v. the cost of actual
> hardware. Verilog is free, but the device to make it is not. Start
> simple:
>
> 	void
> 	main(int, char *[])
> 	{
> 		while(readbyte()){
> 			parseinst();
> 			doinst();
> 		}
> 		exits(nerrs ? "error" : 0);
> 	}

?

You don't need this sort of code in a virtualizable processor.
See for example
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popek_and_Goldberg_virtualization_requirements



  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-13 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-13  1:54 Venkatesh Srinivas
2008-06-13  2:01 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-06-13  3:38   ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2008-06-13  3:38     ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2008-06-13  4:00     ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2008-06-13  8:08       ` sqweek
2008-06-13 10:41         ` Bruce Ellis
2008-06-13 11:47           ` Rodolfo kix García 
2008-06-13 19:05           ` Bakul Shah
2008-06-13 20:03             ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2008-06-13 20:33               ` Charles Forsyth
2008-06-13 20:30                 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-13 20:58                   ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2008-06-13 23:52                     ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-14  0:40                       ` Bakul Shah
2008-06-13 20:35                 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-06-13 23:01                 ` Bakul Shah
2008-06-13 23:26                   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-06-13 23:36                     ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2008-06-13 23:42                     ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2008-06-13 23:52                       ` Uriel
2008-06-17 10:51             ` matt
2008-06-13 12:57   ` stefanha
2008-06-13 12:22 ` Fazlul Shahriar
2008-06-14  0:39 erik quanstrom
2008-06-14  1:24 ` Bakul Shah
2008-06-14  4:58   ` Bruce Ellis
2008-06-14  5:30     ` Iruata Souza
2008-06-14 12:53     ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-14 15:14       ` Iruata Souza
2008-06-14 14:15   ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-15  0:01     ` Bakul Shah

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