From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753351Ab2IMN2L (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:28:11 -0400 Received: from dnvwsmailout1.mcafee.com ([161.69.31.173]:58750 "EHLO DNVWSMAILOUT1.mcafee.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752299Ab2IMN2I (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:28:08 -0400 Message-ID: <5051DF32.1060506@snapgear.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:27:14 +1000 From: Greg Ungerer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Viro CC: , Subject: Re: [RFC] status of execve() work - per-architecture patches solicited References: <20120907182004.GE13973@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <504DEDBB.1090404@westnet.com.au> <20120910164946.GO13973@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120910164946.GO13973@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Ungerer -- Principal Engineer EMAIL: gerg@snapgear.com SnapGear Group, McAfee PHONE: +61 7 3435 2888 8 Gardner Close, FAX: +61 7 3891 3630 Milton, QLD, 4064, Australia WEB: http://www.SnapGear.com