Re: [Qemu-devel] New Year's starting over ... bsd-user

[Thomas Huth <huth@tuxfamily.org>]

On 03.01.2017 18:11, Sean Bruno wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/03/17 09:18, Sean Bruno wrote:
>>
>> I'm pondering where to start with getting FreeBSD's bsd-user code into
>> shape so it could actually be reviewed and accepted now that its sort of
>> working again (signal handling fixed finally).
>>
>> I almost feel like the existing code should be purged, except that it
>> gives a good history (and this seems lazy to me).
>>
>> As a first pass, I guess, I'd like to at least make i386 user run on
>> x86_64.  What would you folks like to see in a first pass?
>>
>> sean
>>
>> ref: https://github.com/seanbruno/qemu-bsd-user/tree/bsd-user
>>
> 
> Primitive example of what I think I should base my patchset on.  Its
> invasive and large.
> 
> https://github.com/seanbruno/qemu-bsd-user/tree/merge1
> 
> That branch, is all the bsd-user changes that are pending in one large
> "splat".  It excludes the new architectures (arm, aarch64, mips, mips64)
> that we are actively using.  i386-bsd-user when compiled statically on
> x86_64 will run a static (rescue) sh ... so, I think that's good.
> x86_64 running on x86_64 just blows up.
> 
> As for sparc/sparc64 ... I'm tempted to delete them as nobody in freebsd
> is actively maintaining them nor do we have any expectation that they
> will work someday.

It's broken ... nobody maintains it ... and we've got too many
unmaintained bit-rotten files in the QEMU tree, so IMHO just go ahead
and send a patch to remove the bsud-user sparc support. If anybody ever
needs it again, they can revert the commit or simply submit a patch with
the fixed code.

 Thomas