Re: Please put qemu-system-sh4eb back.

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 24/10/2024 02.11, Rob Landley wrote:
> I use it, and ship system images for it:
> 
>    https://landley.net/bin/mkroot/latest/sh4eb.tgz

Oh, that's interesting, I've been told that the r2d machine does not work in 
big endian mode:

  https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/87a5fwjjew.wl-ysato@users.sourceforge.jp/

But yes, your binaries apparently work there, so sorry for the confusion.
I'll send a patch to revert the removal.

  Thomas

> And here's me recentish-ly debugging an issue via it:
> 
>   https://landley.net/notes-2024.html#24-05-2024
> 
> (Compile/test cycles are WAY easier there than copying files onto an sd card 
> to test on actual hardware.)
> 
> There was a big-endian issue breaking r2d last year, but it also broke big 
> endian mips and some other targets too, and it got fixed. The binary I built 
> a few months ago was working fine for me with vanilla qemu git source? (I 
> don't _think_ I had local changes?) I can try to build the version removed 
> to check that...
> 
> Yes I should be better about pushing local patches upstream. For example, 
> here's the kernel patch I use to run fdpic binaries under qemu:
> 
> https://landley.net/bin/mkroot/latest/linux-patches/0002-sh4-fdpic.patch
> 
> Which lets you enable the FDPIC loader on an mmu kernel, which is useful for 
> testing j-core userspace under qemu.
> 
> Rob
>