From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXPd4-0002Zx-Ka for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:59:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXPd1-0002X8-HL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:59:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXPd1-0002Wz-DV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:59:11 -0400 Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GXPks-00056D-If for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:07:18 -0400 Message-ID: <452C17F5.3040806@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:21 +0200 From: Marco Matthies MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > Well here is the situation. Dept had a lab with SPARC > based Solaris machines that were phased out in summer > (over my objections). I needed the environment to teach > first computer archt course with some assembly language > thrown in. Intel processor assembly requires a much > bigger effort (on part of students) which defeats the puprpose > of the course. So, I thought that I could put together > the SPARC back, if I am able to boot a SPARC version of > Linux (with gcc, gas, text-editor and networking) under > qemu. Hence the barrage of questions. GUI is a non-issue. Couldn't you just build a crosscompiler and cross-binutils and then use qemu-sparc instead of qemu-system-sparc, i.e. using user emulation instead of whole system emulation ? Marco