From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HR7y5-0003GP-4O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:27:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HR7xz-0003GD-I3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:27:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HR7xz-0003GA-FA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:27:07 -0500 Received: from eastrmmtao107.cox.net ([68.230.240.59]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HR7xA-0006ND-3E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:26:17 -0400 Message-ID: <18872536.1173795944190.JavaMail.root@eastrmwml08.mgt.cox.net> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:25:44 -0400 From: Ben Taylor Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: allow Sparc hosts to run arm/mips/sparc-softmmu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: sol10x86@cox.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook , qemu-devel@nongnu.org ---- Paul Brook wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:01, Ben Taylor wrote: > > This patch fixes crashes when testing with arm-test-0.2.tar.gz and > > mips-test-0.2.tar.gz. Without the patch, both arm-test and mips-test > > segfault when trying to boot. > > I don't believe this is correct. You're going to have to come up with a fairly > convincing argument to get a patch like this accepted. > "don't seem to like this very much" is not a useful comment. Yeah, so the comment is not very useful. I copied it from the author. I'll see if he can actually explain why this patch is important. However, it's very wax-on, wax-off kind of thing. Without the patch, arm-test and mips-test crash. With the patch, I can run both tests. Ben