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From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] status of execve() work - per-architecture patches solicited
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:27:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5051DF32.1060506@snapgear.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120910164946.GO13973@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On 09/11/2012 02:49 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> BTW, the same question goes for many other embedded targets - I'm using
> qemu for arm and mips and hercules for s390; alpha, parisc, ppc32 and sparc64 -
> on actual hardware, amd64 and i386 - on kvm guests (all with debian userland);
> ia64 kinda-sorta works with ski, but it's very much imperfect...  I think
> sh (at least sh4) should be usable with qemu as well, but I hadn't set that
> up yet.  sparc32 is usable on qemu, but only with very old userland.
> Everything else...  In theory, quite a few ought to be usable if one
> bootstraps uclinux userland with qemu, but I've no idea how well does that
> work in practice.  And seeing that e.g. FRV eval boards go for several
> hundred dollars even on ebay, let alone from manufacturer, I'd rather not
> add the actual hardware to the pile here ;-/

I have managed to get qemu to run modern non-MMU ColdFire kernels.
Stock qemu-1.2 itself didn't work, but after a couple of fixes it is
now running again. It doesn't support ColdFire with MMU yet though.

Regards
Greg


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-07 18:20 [RFC] status of execve() work - per-architecture patches solicited Al Viro
2012-09-07 18:22 ` Al Viro
2012-09-10 13:40 ` Greg Ungerer
2012-09-10 16:49   ` Al Viro
2012-09-11  3:39     ` Greg Ungerer
2012-09-13 13:27     ` Greg Ungerer [this message]
2012-09-10 22:20 ` Mark Salter
2012-09-10 22:20   ` [PATCH 1/2] c6x: implement ret_from_kernel_execve() and switch to generic kernel_execve() Mark Salter
2012-09-10 22:20   ` [PATCH 2/2] c6x: switch to generic sys_execve() Mark Salter
2012-09-17  3:26   ` [RFC] status of execve() work - per-architecture patches solicited Al Viro
2012-09-21 16:26     ` Mark Salter
2012-09-21 16:26       ` [PATCH 1/3] c6x: add ret_from_kernel_thread(), simplify kernel_thread() Mark Salter
2012-09-21 16:26       ` [PATCH 2/3] c6x: switch to generic kernel_execve Mark Salter
2012-09-21 16:26       ` [PATCH 3/3] c6x: switch to generic sys_execve Mark Salter
2012-09-21 18:39       ` [RFC] status of execve() work - per-architecture patches solicited Al Viro
2012-09-22 11:16         ` Greg Ungerer
2012-09-23  0:46           ` Al Viro
2012-09-24 10:59             ` Vineet Gupta
2012-09-17  9:29 ` Michal Simek
2012-09-17 22:57   ` Al Viro
2012-09-19 12:20 ` Vineet Gupta
2012-09-19 13:32   ` Al Viro

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