[Xorg-driver-geode] [PATCH] X86EMU: handle CPUID instruction (passthrough)

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sat Feb 2 20:30:19 PST 2008


On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:20:01PM -0500, Gideon Romm wrote:
> Dude -
> 
> Its a patch to the x86 emulator.  :)  It need not support non-x86 architectures.

The reason you have an x86 emulator is so that you can run BIOSes
written in x86 assembly on non-x86 machines.  There are some other
reasons, but yeah.  So yes, it really _does_ need to support non-x86
architectures, else everything would be an asm passthrough, instead of
an insane x86 state machine.
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