Re: [Qemu-devel] [4932] Preliminary PPC64/Linux host support

["René Rebe" <rene@exactcode.de>]

malc wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Ren Rebe wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> malc wrote:
>>> Revision: 4932
>>>           
>>> http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=4932
>>> Author:   malc
>>> Date:     2008-07-23 19:17:46 +0000 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008)
>>>
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> Preliminary PPC64/Linux host support
>>>
>>> ppc64.ld from Heikki Lindholm's patch
>>> http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=114086179024634&w=2
>>>
>>> Issues:
>>> x86_64 tripple faults shortly after decompressing the kernel
>>> No immediate versions of most 64 bit operations
>>>
>> Nice! I already spent some hours fixing a previous ppc64 patch that
>> was sent to the list like half a year ago, which was pre TCG and
>> did not work with relocations generated by latest toolchains.
>>
>> I'll definetly give this patch a try ASAP and try to find some time
>> slots to help streamlining it.
>
> That would be great. One thing i failed to mention in the commit
> message is that linux-user support seems completely broken on ppc64,
> i.e. doesn't even compile and error messages are frightening (or
> maybe it was the amount of them that scared me)
I gave it a spin yesterday, it built and managed to boot a decent linux-2.6
system until the first user-space programs after init where running and
segfaulted thereafter.

I'm abroad the next days, but I'll definetly will help (or try to, I'm no
yet that into TCG, yet :-) to hunt those segfaults :-)

Yours,

-- 
  René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
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