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Re: QEMU 7.0

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

I personally didn't find most of the list interesting, but this is nice:

> RISC-V: support for KVM

> RISC-V: support for ratified 1.0 Vector extension, as well as Zve64f, Zve32f, Zfhmin, Zfh, zfinx, zdinx, and zhinx{min} extensions.

Always happy to see RISC-V getting fully formed:)

Re: QEMU 7.0

#3

Post by vbezhenar »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #2

I personally didn't find most of the list interesting, but this is nice: > RISC-V: support for KVM > RISC-V: support for ratified 1.0 Vector extension, as well as Zve64f, Zve32f, Zfhmin, Zfh, zfinx, zdinx, and zhinx{min} extensions. Always happy to see RISC-V getting fully formed:)

Modern computing is somewhat exciting. We finally got two competitive architectures (x86 and arm) and risc-v slowly building its momentum. This can only result in a better outcome: architectures will compete with each other and improve at faster rate; software will be forced to be cross-platform which is known to improve robustness even if you don't care about other platforms (some bugs are more likely to manifest on other platforms).

Re: QEMU 7.0

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Post by qqque »

Does anyone know if this release supports emulating the iPhone?

If I remember correctly, some ARM extensions and peripherals needed implementing, have they done this for this latest release?

Re: QEMU 7.0

#5

Post by pabs3 »

qqque wrote: post #4

Does anyone know if this release supports emulating the iPhone? If I remember correctly, some ARM extensions and peripherals needed implementing, have they done this for this latest release?

A qemu fork for this was posted on HN a while ago:

https://github.com/TrungNguyen1909/qemu-t8030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30545425

Re: QEMU 7.0

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Post by pm215 »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #2

I personally didn't find most of the list interesting, but this is nice: > RISC-V: support for KVM > RISC-V: support for ratified 1.0 Vector extension, as well as Zve64f, Zve32f, Zfhmin, Zfh, zfinx, zdinx, and zhinx{min} extensions. Always happy to see RISC-V getting fully formed:)

QEMU releases are calendar-based, every four months, so "7.0" just means "first release of 2022", not "we got lots of new and shiny stuff so we bumped the major version" :-) More generally, what goes on in QEMU these days is mostly continued progression of existing work rather than sudden new developments: it's an established project making incremental improvements and following along with updates to hardware and other standards.

Re: QEMU 7.0

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Post by jraph »

joshbaptiste wrote: post #7

The same guy that started QEMU also started ffmpeg.. two very complex pieces of software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard

And also QuickJS, and also the Tiny C compiler, and also JSLinux that runs operating systems in the browser, among other things.

https://bellard.org/

Re: QEMU 7.0

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Post by [deleted] »

pabs3 wrote: post #5
qqque wrote: post #4

Does anyone know if this release supports emulating the iPhone? If I remember correctly, some ARM extensions and peripherals needed implementing, have they done this for this latest release?

A qemu fork for this was posted on HN a while ago: https://github.com/TrungNguyen1909/qemu-t8030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30545425

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