xenia-cpu-ppc-tests Linux Support

[DrChat]

Problem

Goal: Get the PowerPC tests to succeed on Linux hosts.

As of now, a bunch of posix functionality is stubbed out in xenia-base. You can fill in functionality as it's needed for the tests.

Code for posix functionality can be found in src/xenia/base/*_posix.cc
Code for the tester lives in ppc_testing_main.cc

Some useful commands can be found in .travis.yml for building/setup on Linux hosts.

Task List

• - Mapped memory support on Linux (mapped_memory_posix.cc)
  • At the moment, the tester cannot allocate memory to store generated code.

[tetration]

Goal: Get the PowerPC tests to succeed on Linux hosts.

Sorry for my ignorance, but does that mean, that the way you are implementing xenia-base on Linux will only run on Linux Oses which are running on a powerpc architecture/processor?

I´m asking this cause I´m currently using Linux in a 64bit architecture system. And was interested in helping out.

[Razzile]

@tetration i think you may be a little confused. the xbox 360 runs a PPC based CPU so xenia must convert PPC opcodes to native (x64). These tests are most likely for checking the PPC disassembler code and x64 JIT generator work correctly