Re: [Qemu-devel] [4932] Preliminary PPC64/Linux host support

[malc <av1474@comtv.ru>]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Ren Rebe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> malc wrote:
>> Revision: 4932
>>           http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=4932
>> Author:   malc
>> Date:     2008-07-23 19:17:46 +0000 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008)
>> 
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> Preliminary PPC64/Linux host support
>> 
>> ppc64.ld from Heikki Lindholm's patch
>> http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=114086179024634&w=2
>> 
>> Issues:
>> x86_64 tripple faults shortly after decompressing the kernel
>> No immediate versions of most 64 bit operations
>> 
> Nice! I already spent some hours fixing a previous ppc64 patch that
> was sent to the list like half a year ago, which was pre TCG and
> did not work with relocations generated by latest toolchains.
>
> I'll definetly give this patch a try ASAP and try to find some time
> slots to help streamlining it.

That would be great. One thing i failed to mention in the commit
message is that linux-user support seems completely broken on ppc64,
i.e. doesn't even compile and error messages are frightening (or
maybe it was the amount of them that scared me)

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