CPU Emulation

[Jakob Eriksson]

Andreas Mohr wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:54:14PM +1000, Robert Lunnon wrote:
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>>Has any consideration been given to hooking a CPU emulation into wine to allow 
>>non x86 derivative CPUs execute native Windows binaries. For example it aught 
>>to be possible to hook qmu into the wine loader. Would this make a good 
>>Google Summer of Code project ?
>>    
>>
>You even dare asking this question only one day after non-x86
>CPUs have officially been declared extinct!?
>
>qemu is already able to run x86 Windows programs on non-x86 CPUs, with
>the Wine package that's distributed on the qemu website already.
>Not sure whether integrating qemu directly would help a lot...
>Hmm, probably yes, since the whole Win32 API part would be done natively,
>but there's still the whole x86 program part remaining for translation.
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>

All graphics and sound would be running natively.  Look at Darwine project,
they are the closest to this goal. (Still far away though.)


regards,
Jakob