From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53852) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOfS4-0007Q2-Fw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:53:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOfRz-0001tM-L2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:53:36 -0500 Received: from mail-wj0-f196.google.com ([209.85.210.196]:33293) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOfRz-0001t5-EP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:53:31 -0500 Received: by mail-wj0-f196.google.com with SMTP id kp2so74318174wjc.0 for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:53:31 -0800 (PST) References: <5dd3d27a-e630-4e92-43fa-13c131e9f880@freebsd.org> <5540064c-613c-c0df-ae69-d41d45b4501d@freebsd.org> From: Thomas Huth Message-ID: Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 07:53:28 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5540064c-613c-c0df-ae69-d41d45b4501d@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] New Year's starting over ... bsd-user List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Sean Bruno , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Paolo Bonzini , Peter Maydell , Mark Cave-Ayland , Artyom Tarasenko , Fabien Chouteau 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