README.txt
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This is repo contains the following; 
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baseport/
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	The baseport (BSP) needed to run Symbian OS in QEMU
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docs/
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	Various documentation about the baseport, peripherals and how to use QEMU.
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	The wiki folders contains a dump from Wiki documentation, this the unfortunate .doc format.
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symbian-qemu-0.9.1-12/
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	A version of QEMU with some extra features not yet available in the QEMU mainline.
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	A corresponding set of Windows binaries is available from the Symbian Foundation 
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  wiki: see http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/SYBORG/QEMU
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Some notes;
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* The source layout for baseport now matches the Symbian Foundation layout, and 
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  will compile correctly if this repository is unpacked to /sf/os/QEMU. Eventually
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  the baseport could move into the kernelhwsrv or boardsupport packages, but that
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  would imply changing AsspNKernIncludePath in baseport/syborg/variant.mmh
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* Even though a version of QEMU is supplied, the TOT version of QEMU should be usable 
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  (but you will have to build it yourself). The QEMU version is supplied here to 
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  share some the extra features not yet available in mainline QEMU. Most noticeable 
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  the support for Python peripherals (and binary separation of QEMU and its peripheral) 
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  and the skinning support to supply a landing zone for phone specific buttons etc.
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* Throughout the documentation the SVP is referenced. SVP stands for the 
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  "Symbian Virtual Platform" and this was the proposed product name of the 
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  QEMU based simulator. For the purpose of this document treat the SVP as 
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  QEMU with the syborg board models.