From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
To: Blue Swirl <blueswir1@hotmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Solaris/SPARC binaries
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:23:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050801102331.GB20765@MAIL.13thfloor.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F9D979D3352F6D9D01947EFFCE0@phx.gbl>
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 10:05:14AM +0200, Blue Swirl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sparc V8 system emulator is very much complete, but in practice some hidden
> bugs in it (and also bugs in Proll's Openprom support) make the emulator
> fragile. It can only run Linux 2.6 series, 2.4 or BSDs won't run. Probably
> some heavy debugging could make a difference, but it seems that general
> interest for the emulator is low.
well, just to let you know ... I'm interested in the emulator
(is there some howto available, regarding openprom and such?)
TIA,
Herbert
> I haven't tried Solaris for Sparc V8, it would be interesting to hear the
> results.
>
> V9 emulation is getting better, but it's still not usable for anything yet.
> For example, support for execution in memory above >4G limit (in 32-bit
> host) was committed to CVS only a few days ago. Maybe the user mode
> emulator could run 64-bit Linux binaries, but I don't have any.
>
> It might be possible to make a Solaris user mode emulator by translating
> Solaris system calls to Linux, but it could be a lot of work.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-01 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-29 8:05 [Qemu-devel] Re: Solaris/SPARC binaries Blue Swirl
2005-07-29 9:55 ` Hetz Ben Hamo
2005-08-01 10:23 ` Herbert Poetzl [this message]
2005-08-01 20:59 ` Blue Swirl
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