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authorapb <apb@pkgsrc.org>2008-03-29 16:52:07 +0000
committerapb <apb@pkgsrc.org>2008-03-29 16:52:07 +0000
commit45bdb3c93e1874bf609980a40ae5c734255af592 (patch)
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parent6c801341e2f7b1ad64c8f2d089256fda3707bb06 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-45bdb3c93e1874bf609980a40ae5c734255af592.tar.gz
Replace DESCR with a copy of the first few paraghraphs from the README
inside the distribution. OK xtraeme.
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-GXemul is a machine emulator. The initial goal was to write a simple
-64-bit MIPS emulator for running multiprocessor experiments with a
-microkernel, but the emulator can be used for many other things. While
-some simulators only simulate a CPU, GXemul also simulates other
-hardware components, making it possible to use the emulator to run
-unmodified operating systems, such as NetBSD, OpenBSD, or Linux.
+GXemul is a framework for full-system computer architecture emulation.
+Several processor architectures and machine types have been implemented.
+It is working well enough to allow unmodified "guest" operating systems to
+run inside the emulator, as if they were running on real hardware.
+
+The emulator emulates (networks of) real machines. The machines may
+consist of ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and SuperH processors, and various
+surrounding hardware components such as framebuffers, busses, interrupt
+controllers, ethernet controllers, disk controllers, and serial port
+controllers.
+
+GXemul, including the dynamic translation system, is implemented in
+portable C, which means that the emulator will run on practically any host
+architecture.
+
+The documentation lists the machines and guest operating systems that can
+be regarded as "working" in GXemul. The best working guest operating
+systems are probably NetBSD/pmax and NetBSD/cats.