| From: | Sam Jordan |
| Date: | 06 Dec 99 at 18:29:15 |
| Subject: | Re: [warpup] 68K emulation |
Am 06-Dez-99 schrieb Rangel Badillo Daniel:
Hi
This really isn't off-topic, the 68K emulator is tightly bound
to WarpUp.
>I'm considering to buy a G3/G4 accelerator for my A1200 (currently
>with a blizzardppc board) and I'd like to ask a few questions about the 68K
>emulation those boards will use:
>Here are the questions
>1. Will Haage & Partner provide this emulator for Phase5 G4 boards?
This will be evaluated, now it's much too early to say anything
definitely.
>2. Is the emulator 100 % stable and compatible enough to run current
>applications including OS 3.5?
No application is ever 100% stable by definition. On the other hand,
compatibility and speed were both a major issue during development.
Stability is something which should be improved all the time. Surely
no software is perfect at the first production release.
>3. Will it need WarpUP to run? (which means to force every user to
>run under WarpUP, that's no problem but.. what about all the
>applications unavailable for WarpUP but PowerUP which don't run under the
>ppclib emulation?
Bad luck. WarpOS is the kernel, where the emulator runs as application task.
You can not run the original ppc.library on PPC-only hardware, that's
a problem of the ppc.library itself.
Phase5 has something planned based on QNX, but this is still unclear and
quite a doubtful thing.
>4. Does the emulator emulate different 68k family processors, say
>060s x times faster so I can run a 060-optimized programsor will only
>emulate a "raw" 68k?
The emulator emulates a 040 instruction set, but this is quite
irrelevant. There are basically no user-level applications which
rely on 060-specialties.
>5. It would be nice to know of programs already tested with it...
Later, it will take quite some time IMHO until all this will/might
become important. I don't see any PPC hardware release in short term.
bye