Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-darwin-user

[Jocelyn Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 14:08, Jocelyn Mayer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 13:13, Pierre d'Herbemont wrote:
> > Hi all,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I have done some work on the darwin-user side. Since it doesn't work 
> > yet, I don't submit patch for it but I have updated the qemu branch on 
> > opendarwin [1][2], and you can now ./configure 
> > --target-list=i386-darwin-user. Basically it can load a Fat or a 
> > regular binary, and have the dynamic linker called. Unfortunately it 
> > crashes somewhere in _dyld_reloc right now.
> 
> You may be interressed to know that I have working code for BSD/Darwin
> program emulation, including working FAT/mach-O loader.
> In fact, I was working on Darwin emulation before I integrate my PPC
> emulation code into Qemu.
> As I already emulated all basic syscalls & sysctl for the 4 BSD flavours
> (Net, Open, Free & Darwin), but Mach ones, you may like to get my code.
> This code used to be in the Linux kernel but I can easily adapt it for
> Qemu. The big missing parts to allow the execution of complex programs
> are mach syscalls and signals management, but I guess this part can be
> taken from Linux-user emulation with a few changes.

Just forgot to say that this emulation used to work
for PPC binaries as well as for x86 ones...

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Jocelyn Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
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