Re: x86 full system simulation.

"Frank Ch. Eigler" <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:55:57 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.sid.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi -

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:54PM +0100, Johan Rydberg wrote:
> [...]
> "several years ago" is "nowdays" when it comes to the development pace
> of SID :) 

Indeed, sid is stable, though Red Hat still undertakes some commercial
porting support for it.

> [...]  Unrelated: Has anyone toyed with the idea of maybe throwing
> away mainDynamic+configrun and replacing it with a Python frontend?
> [...]

... or lua or something?  It's all possible, and not hard to do.
(OTOH, disposing of prior front-ends is not necessary unless they are
well and truly supplanted.)

> I know that SID is somewhat hooked up to tcl, but I won't touch that
> with a three hundred meter pole.

Well, it wouldn't give you warts, if that's what you worry about. :-)

- FChE